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•drove to a friend’s house and was greeted with great news. I’ve got 2 two 2️⃣ new vocal students! Last year I had been hired by a private music school to teach English vocals but we couldn’t find enough students at the time to begin teaching. Now, a year later, two teens have requested lessons together; harmonies are my favorite to teach, so them joining together is sweet serendipity. V v v happy about this turn of events.

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Cookie update!
Five batches in and I think we are getting the recipe dialed in. The climate in Thailand (humid jungle) is sooooo different than in Utah (mountain desert) so it’s taken some time to understand that butter cannot hold its shape in the heat of our house. These are soft cookies with a crispy edge, so delicious.

I’m getting a lot of joy out of bringing our cookies to our friends here. Thailand has such.delicious.food and it’s part of culture to talk deeply about food when we greet our friends. So to bring something from my home, something so delicious to share, brings me a certain satisfaction. Aroi mak mak!

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2. So, in the last two months of baking here in Thailand, a phenomenon is occurring. For every Thai person we share our cookies with, they immediately tell us to sell these soft and perfect Oooey Gooey chocolate chip cookies and then back up that belief by ordering cookies by the tens. The first time it happened we sold 70 cookies in a week. The second week we had orders for 170 cookies. Last week, 440 (!!!!) cookies.    
Meanwhile, we’ve been honing in our recipe and handling humidity, whilst also learning how to protect these cookies from ants and lizards.

I grew up baking, some of my earliest memories are pushing a chair to the counter top to use the stand mixer next to my mother, ingredients lined up, being so careful next to the eggs, the smell of vanilla and sugar raising from the bowl being mixed. It’s giving witchcraft, alchemy, Magick to witness simple ingredients BECOME a vehicle of joy to the face.

Watching my husband rise into a baker himself has also been a joy, it was by his taste and sense of smell that the cookie really came to be. Because while I have been baking my whole life, it’s never been something I’ve received money from. It’s just something I do. His drive for making a perfect taste pushes him to brown the butter, toast the cashews, and make the extra effort to understand how to achieve the very best taste. Here in Thailand, where food is such a deep part of the culture and the way we speak to each other, The Cookie is a way to give something people have not yet tried but want to. And so we are building a bakery business here, named for my mother: Loa Bakes โลว่า เบคร์
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