I've been out in Durango, CO for a few days visiting one of my dearest friends. We used to work at a kayaking/rafting company in NC and have been good friends ever since.
I've seen these Mendhi hand cookies for a while now and have been wanting to try them on my own. I got a new cookbook while I was in Chicago, so we made a batch of gingerbread cookies out of it. She didn't have a mixer, which meant I got to cream the sugar and butter by hand and add all the other ingredients slowly and methodically.
Once we got the dough made (which tasted great and was lovely and fluffy!), we rolled it out by hand, with a little flour sprinkled on her fabulous wood countertops.
We had traced our hands on paper and cut out a hand template, so then we used that to cut the cookies.
After they were finished baking and had cooled, we used little icing tubes to make designs and really had fun with it.
This trip has been full of amazing small-town treats: riding bikes to yoga in the morning and then to breakfast, hiking up the hill to hear a lecture, dinner parties at high school friends' houses. I've never been to Durango, so I wanted to experience the wild wild west. We got to go paddling on a very low run of the Rock Wood section of the Animas River. It involved a 2 mile hike (passing a rattlesnake!) and a brutal hike out, but the beautiful deep gorge, the high walls of rocks, the amazing boofs, and the clear, quality class III whitewater made for a beautiful run. We even got in a little paddling pin up practice .
I'm leaving tomorrow, and I'll be sad to leave the wild wild west. Its been a great trip.
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