Graah!

I don't really know what to post about. I guess my choices are workplace alienation, incredibly basic database theory, and toasted butter.

Toasted butter is pretty awesome, actually. I often talk it up, and everyone nods politely. It's hard to convert people to a baked goods theory without the baked good right there, right then. Unfortunately, toasted butter is so awesome that I eat a lot of the cookie dough I put it in. It's so awesome that Señor C's normal avid consumption of cookies ramps up to frightening levels. Usually he can be distracted with tartlets or jam cake, but there is no dissuading him from toasted butter cookies. If I made extra for him, he'd eat them all, and then be sick.

So you will have to make things with toasted butter on your own, dear readers. Take some butter, melt it in a large, light colored pan (you need to see it change color), and put it on medium heat. Stir it occasionally, and let it form foam twice. Eventually it will smell like melted baby angels and have toasted carmel colored bits at the bottom. Use where ever you'd use melted butter in baked goods.

Or I could share a recipe: Burned Butter Brown Sugar Cookies (makes 2 dozen in a world where no one eats the dough)
Preheat oven to 350°
Make
10 tbs burned butter
Stir in
4 tbs unburned butter
1 3/4 cups dark brown sugar
1 tbs vanilla (It's a lot, but the flavors are friends)
and then
1 egg
1 egg yolk
Mix together dry ingredients:
2 cups and 2 tbs white flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Mix together wet ingredients and dry ingredients. Form 1 1/2 inch balls (You may want to roll them in a little white sugar) and squash them with either a fork or the palm of your hand. Bake for twelve minutes, or until you're convinced that they're still too raw and squooshy to be considered done. Let cool, and then hide a dozen before you taste one.