ウメダチーズラボ :: クッキー

When your friends know that the man's the dessert fiend, they still managed to find delicious cookies that I will eat. They came back from Osaka with packets of dorayaki and a gorgeous box of cream cheese and white chocolate cookies from Umeda Cheese Lab (ウメダチーズラボ、クッキー).

We opened it on the night when the man had a looooong 10pm call. (We had stayed in on this dreary rainy day and I rustled up easy tenggiri fish masala and dhal.) The man was still peckish and was happy to nibble on cookies. The shop claimed that they used gorgonzola and gouda for the filling. Those layers of cheese lent so much flavor to the white chocolate that only the savory hits me and not so much of the sweetness of white chocolate. OMG. THESE ARE AMAZING. I LIKE!

That napping dog, exhausted after a fun day at play school and didn't eat that much dinner, opened an eye when she heard the rustling of boxes and such. Then she got up proper when she smelt the cheese. She stared at us and our cookies. Nope. You ain't getting a bite of it. (She's not lactose intolerant and she can have bits of cheese as a treat, but not in this form.) She stared and followed me to the kitchen when I went to wash the plates, and stared some more. She doesn't come into the kitchen and lie down to wait with that look unless she wants food. Which is a rare occurence. Even during usual meal-times, if she isn't hungry, she wouldn't be doing her little 'I can't wait to eat' skips and hops. Fine, she got supper — not cheese — a wee portion of goat, salmon, egg and chicken giblets.