DoubleTree cookies

After learning that DoubleTree had released its cookie recipe, I had to try making them.

I didn't do all that well. My biggest mistake was getting walnut pieces rather than proper chopped walnuts, in my haste. So I wound up with thick, lumpy cookies rather than the nice smooth round ones I should have.

They definitely taste right, though. I'll have to try again in a few weeks when I've finished these off...

A reading recommendation

If anyone still happens to be interested in reading about the workings of financial world, I'd like to recommend making Matt Levine at Bloomberg part of your daily reading. I've found his column to be wide-ranging, educational, and, especially important in these times, to have a finely honed sense of the absurd.

Monday's column is a representative grab bag of what you'll get-- an explanation of the weirdness in the oil futures markets; a look at the failures of the PPP; notes on the changing culture of the financial industry; and a digression into how it has accidentally become impossible for human beings to exist in public in New York State without breaking the law.