I like to bake, but I rarely make cookies. (I do muffins and breads.) They’re too labor intensive — I hate going back and forth, taking them in and out of the oven, letting cookie sheets cool, etc. But tonight I made some, because the recipie was pretty easy. And I even managed to scare up a second cookie sheet (I can only claim ownership of one).

They’re cooling now. (Not that this has stopped me from having one already). Don’t you wish you lived quite close to me, and so could just pop over for a cookie and some tea? Yes . . . move to Somerville . . . yes . . .

Anyway, I told you this whole digital camera thing would get out of hand. Meet my mixer! It’s a KitchenAid Artisan mixer, in China Red. This was my big Christmas gift in ’04, and I love it.