Cookie Porn

What's a good food blog without some gratuitous cookie porn? Not much good at all, especially when said cookies are birthday cookies.

Remember yesterday's crabby-Turkey-Day-turned-thankful (thank goodness!) post? I mentioned that it was also the Best Husband Ever's birthday! I baked him some peanut butter and banana cookies, based on the FatFree Vegan Kitchen recipe. To half the batch I added chunks of chocolate covered macadamia caramel nut clusters that we just happened to have in our pantry (thanks, Costco!). Those really made these tasty cookies awesome!

I set them out, wrote a card, and wrapped up a present, too. (Don't look at the back, though, I botched the wrapping job! The Best Husband Ever was very gracious about it, of course.) If you've been following Kitchen Courage for very long, you've probably read that the hubby and I really enjoy playing board games like Scrabble together. We've been getting a little tired of our old stand-by, though, so I bought him Catan: The Card Game, which is a two player card version of the Settlers of Catan board game series. We played it today and, while it has a steep learning curve, I'm certain we won't regret having it on our game shelf.

Okay, okay, that's all, folks. Show's over, the cookies are gone. Cookie porn is all well and good, but give me some food art any day of the week. It's so much healthier for body, mind, and soul, don't you think?