I like sweets. I especially like something sweet with a cup of coffee in the mid-afternoon. I know the Health Police tell us we should have some tofu or a handful of tree bark (organic, of course) to keep ourselves fueled until dinnertime, but what I want is some caffeine, fat, and sugar. Today, I found myself without an appropriate sweet at hand. Then I remembered The Husband.
He is good for so, so many things, and not least is that he gets in the mood to bake every once in awhile. Last night he mixed up some gingersnap dough with twice-hand-ground cloves. He is one of those literal bakers who follows recipes to the letter, so when the cookbook tells him to chill the dough, by gum he chills it – no cookies until tomorrow, folks, cuz this here dough has to be cold.
Well. Now it is today. Sweet required. No sweet to be found. Cookie dough in fridge. Moral and/or ethical questions:
1. Is it right to pre-empt The Husband’s moment of culinary triumph by baking three dough ball’s worth of his cookie dough ahead of time?
2. Is it ecologically/financially sound to heat the oven to 350 degrees to bake three cookies?
3. Can I possibly answer these questions when I need coffee and a sweet?
The answers:
1. Probably not
2. Certainly not
3. Emphatically no
On the other hand, if I hadn’t baked and consumed those three cookies, I’m sure I wouldn’t have the energy to make dinner, which would be a disappointment to The Husband when he returns home tonight, tired and weary, from his job in the big city, and it certainly would cost more to buy take-out food than to heat the oven for twenty minutes to bake those little gems. All in all, I think I made the right decision.
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