And the smallest of these was Madeline.

Matt's parents gave me a madeleine pan for Christmas.

As a result, I may or may not like them more than I like him.

I'm still tweaking the recipe, adjusting for different spices and different types of honey, but taste-testing them has been a blast.

So far, the favorite honey is the sourwood that one of Matt's distant cousins sent to us via his grandmother.

I am once again inspired to acquire a bee colony (the first time was after reading Plath's Ariel collection). Matt is oddly acquiescent on the subject, as he usually shoots my weird agricultural ideas down.

Maybe he likes the cookies.