If life hands you lemons, make lemon cookies.

Many of you will know exactly what the phrase "cookie dough sale" means. For those of you who don't, let me splain...

The ubiquitous candy/trinket/candle fundraiser sales of our school days have been augmented by the sales of 3 lbs tubs of cookie dough with nearly the mythical self life of Twinkies. (Actual shelf life of the dough frozen, is 12 months). The dough cost between 10 and 13 dollars depending on the flavor.

Now this is not an item I would buy if little Timmy knocked on the door hawking his wares to fund raise for his school field trip to the science center, but when my nephew called at the beginning of his school year, (in perfect compliance with the Do Not Call Registry, since I brought and consumed cookies the previous year) I played the part of dutiful uncle and agreed to purchase a tub-o-cookies.

I chose the German Chocolate cookies, seeing as that is probably my favorite cake, I thought they would be tolerable.

After a few months and the inevitable memory lapse about the purchase, I received a call one Saturday morning with a cryptic message informing me that my sister-in-law would be at certain small/square hamburger joint, at a certain time and would have my "stuff"... I arrived at the aforementioned time and place feeling like I was ready for a shady drug deal and took delivery of my rapidly thawing tub of joy... Once home I tucked the tub away in the garage freezer until such time as I needed on demand cookies.

This morning, that time arrived... I had actually planned for the event by removing the dough from the freezer last night and leaving it out to thaw.

I imagine that you, dear reader, might be asking yourself "what the hell do lemons have to do with German Chocolate cookies...?" or maybe "What the hell is he yammering on about today...?" I will do more 'splaining'.

Over the weekend I purchased a bag of lemons from the local chain grocery store, I found a little mold on one, then a second, then third and fourth lemon this morning, and knew that if I didn't harvest the lemon juice quickly, I would have moldy additions to my compost pile, and a couple of wasted bucks.

So I wind up in the kitchen with 2 dozen German Chocolate cookies and a half a cup of lemon juice... Now what does anyone worthy of the description "curious" do with 2 dozen cookies and a half a cup of lemon juice? Sprinkle a little juice on a cookie of course...

You could have knocked me over with a feather... Turns out the combination is actually really really good, and I'm not even fond of sweet lemon preparations.

So, lessons learned today... Chocolate and lemon CAN go together, and the scary tub-o-cookies can be turned into a decent desert.

I recommend finding a nice chocolate cookie recipe and drizzling fresh lemon juice on them while they are still warm... I also recommend you find way to get rid of the remaining cookies other than standing over the cooling rack eating cookies and growling at your family members when they venture too close to you... 

Surprises happen all the time... Be open to them.

Cheers

Chris