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Nate’s Oatmeal Cookies

Dear Liza,

The new cookie place has opened!! Nate’s Oatmeal Cookies, run by a fine fellow named Nate, of course, (I haven’t found out his last name yet) has opened just down the block on Belmont, and they are wonderful.

Six different kinds of cookies, three of which are vegan and gluten-free, are on offer for $4.00 each, or $20.00 per half dozen. This is not cheap, surely, because Nate uses quality ingredients. Nate even lists the ingredients in his website so you know what you are getting.

As a way of making an objective taste test, we bought one of each. Auntie Bridgett was very happy with the gluten-free Trailblazers, with their cake-like texture and crunchy nuts and chewy raisins. The Snickerdoodles were also delicious, though a bit dense for a snickerdoodle, because of the oatmeal.

The only drawback is that the gluten-free cookies use Vegan butter, which is made with coconut milk, and Auntie Bridgett is allergic to anything coconut. Being a cookie-loving woman, this makes her very sad.

But, thinking positively, I get the rest of the cookies!

I especially loved the Cherry Almond, which have a unique chewy, almond-y goodness.

Everyone should stop by and find their favorite at Nate’s Oatmeal Cookies! Smiling Channing will be happy to sell you some.


Love,

Grandma Judy

Easter Preparations

Dear Liza,

Grandpa Nelson, Auntie Bridgett and I have an Easter picnic planned at Laurelhurst Park with Auntie Katie, Cousins Jasper and Kestrel, and Katie’s pal Douglas. We are providing most of the food, so there was a lot to do!

First, of course, was cookies. Donna Spicer’s sugar cookies always turn out delicious, so I made a double batch.

As you can see, I have included the “traditional” Easter dinosaur. (Maybe it is traditional somewhere…)


Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I iced them with plain white frosting and painted them with food coloring.

The colors are sort of Easter-ish, even if there are no bunny cookies. Cats, yes, and flowers, and a happy face.

But you can’t have a picnic of just cookies, so we made some deviled eggs.

We sliced the eggs a little differently, mixed the yolks with spices and mayonnaise, and filled the eggs back up.

Then Auntie Bridgett put on the tops and gave them little eyes made of peppercorns.
Little chicks hatching from their shells! Aren’t they cute?

So now, the night before Easter, I feel ready for the picnic. We have cookies, deviled eggs, fruits, veggies, meat and spreads, pickles and other goodies. Auntie Katie will bring lots of bread, and we’ll be fed!

So now I can watch Yul Brynner give in to Charleton Heston in “The Ten Commandments” and head off to bed.

Love,

Grandma Judy