You’d think mama would have thought this out, right?
Well, actually not so smart! Mama was up the road teaching a neighbor how to bake the almond crisps (with no flour, butter, etc–a GREAT cookie) and they mixed up the dough and put them on the pan mama had brought (because the neighbor doesn’t cook a lot) and the oven was hot and guess what? The pan didn’t fit the small apartment oven belonging to the friend! I mean, mama should have asked about the size of the oven, no?
So where did “smart cookie” come from…?
Almond crisps–num num!
So mama took the pan of unbaked cookies and put it in the trunk of her car and as she was driving back home to bake them, what did she see OUT THE WINDOW OF THE CAR? The new moon!
And everyone KNOWS that seeing a new moon through glass is a NO-NO! At least in Italy and so it has become one of mama’s and papa’s bugaboos, whatever they are. And WHEN one of them sees the new moon through glass, he or she has to be turned around three times by the other in one direction and then three times in the other direction and THEN look at the moon again (if you can focus, being by then so dizzy, haha).
So they took care of that out in the garden when mama got home except that clouds had come in and the new moon was blotted out! Now they are sneaking peeks out the open door to make sure they BOTH do not see the new moon through glass.
Anthros are so weird. They could be sitting by our nice little fire having an aperitif with ME! I wonder if they mix theirs with my tooth treatment liquid for flavor?
We’ve never heard that about a new moon. Interesting….
Well, it’s an Italian belief and probably old, like the one about climbing a ladder to be safe from werewolves, haha.
Naturally gluten-free…some might question whether “cookies,” or “candies” or “macaroons” is the word, but I’m sure they are delicious.
They are almond crisps, mama calls them. And she doesn’t give a hoot about not eating gluten because EVERYTHING has gluten in it, including shampoo, but if one is allergic, she understands perfectly.
Phew. You had me worried then. Thankfully I only saw the new moon as I was walking to the car out of the office at work.
What happens if you don’t spin yourselves?
Oh, boy, you don’t want to know, haha….
Just kidding. You’ll be fine since you saw it au natural. The spinning thingy is mama and papa thinking up a way to not have bad luck after having seen the moon through glass.
Oooh, Loulou – a new moon, sitting by the fire, cookies (surely ypir mama kept a few as a reward) and booze. Mama is drooling. I’m fantasizing about cookie crumbs to hoover or grabbing one off the plate as they spin. SO – while the anthros were busy, spinning around – did YOU sneak a cookie? Those almonds are probably good for the teeth – fiber, right?
Hey, those cookies are good for EVERYTHING. And mama can’t believe she wrote ‘peaks’for ‘peeks’…arggg. She had better edit a bit better, that’s for sure. She’s peaky blind, haha.
The cookies look good.
They really are. And no flour, butter, milk, nothing but almonds, sugar, pinch of salt, vanilla, cinnamon and ONE egg for 50 cookies! Mama can print the recipe if you like.
oh my!! What a night!!!! I had bought baking pans once and did the same thing, I have a normal range but I bought my pans at a place that is geared towards restaurants and they didn’t fit my oven!!! I never knew that about the moon, interesting!
Well, I’m going to tell you about mama’s mamm’s oven today, later on….I hope they took your pans in exchange for smaller ones.
Those cookies sound good. How nice of your mama to bake them for the neighbor.
Well, the neighbor didn’t believe that cookies could be made without flour and butter, etc so mama offered the lesson.
Did Mama remember to bring the cookies in from the car,after all that ?
Ha ha, yes she did but not before they slid around a bit on the winding road home!