An evening in the Common

Every summer Boston has free Shakespeare on the Common with a show each night for a couple of weeks. With all the evening rainstorms this summer, we weren't sure if we were going to get to go before the run ended. This year's play was 'As You Like It'.Neither of us had ever seen it performed, and I was excited they did a comedy because frankly, it's fun more to laugh than watch all the misery of the tragedies.

Each year the stage tends to appear simple, but they always do a great job making it work for the show. This one had the different tree pieces on tracks so that they could slide along the stage into different positions.

Our friends Sarah, Elisha, Eric and Fiona joined us for our picnic and the show.

We were supposed to go the night before, but it rained, so I baked some ginger cookies! I have snacking elves in my kitchen, I catch them every once in a while....

You can see the gooey ginger candies melting out of the cookies. I was very excited because these cookies actually stayed soft! Whenever I make cookies, I either mix them too much or bake them too long and they get crunchy.

The Ultimate Ginger Cookie recipe was from The Barefoot Contessa at Home. Although, instead of crystallized ginger, I used Indonesian ginger candies (there was a lot of unwrapping and they were so hard to cut up. Next time I'll get the correct ingredient).