{"id":12974,"date":"2024-01-05T01:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T06:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12974"},"modified":"2024-01-05T01:34:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T06:34:22","slug":"tradition-resumed-a-meal-shared-and-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12974","title":{"rendered":"tradition resumed, a meal shared, and cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. For the first time since the pandemic, Sarah, Rudi, and I resumed our New Year&#8217;s Eve movie marathon. (It was a mini marathon, but still!) We watched <em>The Color Purple<\/em> and <em>Wonka<\/em> &#8212; and enjoyed both &#8212; and ate Chinese food in lieu of pizza because Ella&#8217;s was closed. But at midnight, we were together, and that is what has been lacking since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>2. Chris and Julie treat me to supper at a local restaurant the night after I get back to town on my own.<\/p>\n<p>3. I baked last week and both cookies I made here were delicious and easy. <\/p>\n<p>Salted peanut butter cookies (with thanks to Chris for his birthday request and <a href=\"https:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/2015\/10\/salted-peanut-butter-cookies\/\">Smitten Kitchen<\/a> for coming through with a recipe, as I fully expected her to):<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/53431758457\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Salted Peanut Butter Cookies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53431758457_f7b8624930.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Salted Peanut Butter Cookies\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/1023675-gochujang-caramel-cookies\">Gochujang caramel cookies<\/a> (an Eric Kim recipe from the <em>New York Times<\/em> I&#8217;ve had open in a tab since December 2022 (not a typo), proving you really may eventually get back to it):<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/53432683016\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Gochujang Caramel Cookies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53432683016_69cb52f538_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Gochujang Caramel Cookies\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. For the first time since the pandemic, Sarah, Rudi, and I resumed our New Year&#8217;s Eve movie marathon. (It was a mini marathon, but still!) 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