Christmas cookies

For those of you rushing to make Christmas cookies in the next week, you might want to check out this little database that I built for the Pioneer Press. It contains cookie recipes that readers submitted to us last month. This page allows you to search by type of cookie, name or even on any given ingredient. When we were building this application, the food editor, who oversees this recipe thing every year, was thrilled to work with someone who actually knew her way around a recipe! It was kind of fun, too - although a big departure from what I usually work on. This is an example of where my skills are needed for far more than just "news" and I find myself helping simply because there isn't anybody else to do it.