The sun is out and the cherry blossoms are blooming for the last day of Winter. We love Spring, and apparently Middle Eastern cultures do too.
We have people from all over the country who work with us, often giving us unique perspectives on various holidays and celebrations. Today, someone brought in this tray of delicious treats to celebrate the Persian (Iranian) New Year:
Baklava
Baklava are intensely-rich, sweet pastries formed by layers of phyllo dough and filled with chopped nuts, syrup or honey. In Persia they say, "Dahan-et shirin basheh" - may your mouth be sweet. And it was. We could barely eat the whole little, tasty thing.
Crazy Cake Lady apparently didn't know about the Persian New Year, and instead deemed it Peanut Butter Treat Day:
Peanut butter chocolate sandwiches.
Just to ensure everyone eats at least two cookies, CCL glued two regular, crumbly peanut butter cookies with melted chocolate. We can't think of any reason why she would have done this. She could have drizzled chocolate over the top of one cookie, subtracting a ton of calories, but no... we have to eat for two. And deal with all the other temptations:
Blue cheese and chives biscuits
OK, that's not really that appealing. That just looks like her leftover dinner rolls from the night before. This on the other hand:
Peanut Butter Bars
These cookie crunch bottom with a peanut butter-powdered sugar-vanilla-&butter topped bars were too tempting to pass. So we split one three ways. That's probably about 400 calories. Good job, CCL, for making us fat.
Have a fantastic weekend! We'll be working off our workfat (It's kinda like babyfat not as cute) in the sunshine.
-Weight-gaining worker.
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