Fingers Crossed

Beware when cooking in another's kitchen. You might find yourself working with appliances you've never before touched (i.e., electric standing mixer, circa the Civil War), ingredients you're not quite familiar with (double strength vanilla extract, margarine made with olive oil), and you will open every cabinet and drawer multiple times each to find what you are looking for.

Let's just say Riley and I said a little prayer over the trays of cookies before I put them in the oven. He licked a beater clean and sampled a cookie and stated, "Not bad," so I'm gonna guess we're in the clear.