Took some time to unwind tonight by baking a batch of cookies. I didn’t even end up eating any of them tonight!

Fresh batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies sitting on the cooling rack on top of the stove in my kitchen

I was craving some baked goods so I made a batch of soft pretzels for the first time in twenty years I’m pretty happy with how they turned out.

A bakers dozen of soft pretzels on a cooling rack on top of the stove cooling in the sun.