Every Tuesday night I play mah jongg with a group of women. It’s a four person game; there are 5 of us and every four turns we sit out a game. Some weeks I bring one of my myriad of cooking magazines with me to thumb through. This past December while thumbing through Bon Appetit, I came across this recipe for pistachio thumbprint cookies, and immediately showed it to my friend Carol, who loves pistachios.
Everyone ooh’ed over the photo, and it went into my mental “make – this” file. Fast forward, and my friend Shoshi, who is Carol’s daughter, had just given birth to a baby boy and I helped bake sweets for the bris. You better believe this was one of the first cookies on the list!