Pavlov's breakroom

As I walked down the hall toward the office kitchen and the box of Danish halves left over from this morning's meeting, I caught myself murmuring snack snack snack snack, snack snack snack snack...

I fear I have been in Cubicle-land too long. (The horror! The horror!)

In other news, I now have three Gmail addresses: public, anonymous, and Facebook. Oh, yes I did.

Happy-Presidents'-Day scones

They're a little late to be end-of-holidays baking, but here's what I did with the ingredients left over from a dessert auction recipe plus some other stuff (can't remember what I bought the cream for...):

Orange-Almond-Cranberry Cream Scones

1-1/2 c. flour
1/2 almond meal
1/4 c. sugar
1 T. baking powder
1/2 t. salt

1/2 c. orange-flavored dried cranberries*
minced zest of 1 orange

1-1/4 c. heavy cream

2 T. oat germ

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Sift together dry ingredients. Stir in cranberries & zest, making sure they're unclumped and coated with flour. Stir in cream until just combined -- do not overmix (dough will be wet).

Scoop into 1/4 c. balls; place on an ungreased baking sheet and flatten slightly. Smear tops with a little more cream, and sprinkle with oat germ and a little more sugar. (Raw/turbinado is best, but white sugar is just fine.) Bake 12-15 minutes.

Eat. And eat and eat and eat.

*I didn't intend to buy the orange-flavored but their label looked the same as the regular. At any rate, Trader Joe's orangey berries don't have creepy chemicals and they worked really well in this recipe.

guess they ate too many m&ms

I don't know how this company became the market leader it is today with employees who can't even commit to finishing a damn doughnut.