Improving the all day meeting

I was supposed to be working on a PowerPoint presentation for an ALL DAY meeting but decided to procrastinate by making treats for said meeting. This procrastination technique start back in my collage days. I would make dozens of different types of cookies right around midterms and finals. Maybe I should have taken culinary arts instead of business class then I would have whipped up some great spreadsheets during cooking finals. But I am glad I can do both today.

Really which do you think people will prefer, some snappy PowerPoint slides or some homemade pastries? As I'm still working away on my Bon Appetit project everything of course had to come from the magazine.

Luckily the presentation and the treats were both well received.

Meeting improvement treats
Blueberry Jam Cookies (pg111)
Brown Butter Raspberry Tart (pg111)
Spiced Plum-Cherry Turnovers (pg41)


For the first two I really did not mess with the recipes much. The blueberry jam cookies were better than I expected. The light cookie with the freshly made jam is a great combo. I did double the tart recipe and tried to do one in a regular pie pan but it got stuck and broke (not that the people in the office minded eating the reject).

I did change the turnovers a bit. Firstly there are no plums in Seattle this time of year so I switched to peaches. The recipe is actually for 4 turnovers. I doubled the recipe and then cut the pie crust into much smaller pieces and made 24. Instead of folding the crust in half I started from the wide end of the sliced crust and rolled and then folded the flaps over. Each piece was 2-3 bites, much better for a large group. If I made them again I might use a little less liquid as the peaches added more and it was messy to work with.