Happy New year, 2017. The bills and papers are not yet sorted – but us gold-plated state employees still have the day off tomorrow, to make up for the Sunday and Saturday holidays. We haven’t gotten paid yet either, because of the holidays, and the Federal Reserve’s closed tomorrow so no wire transfers – so … [Read more…]
I’ve been making a list of the things I expect our president elect to do away with. Of course, the big and most serious one is Obamacare, otherwise known as health insurance for millions of people. The thing that burns me is that the Republicans keep touting health savings accounts as the answer – but … [Read more…]
Just so you know – I have still been having a life, I just haven’t managed to write about it much, recently. I blame work – I was totally overloaded this fall semester, 3 classes instead of 2. I finished grading at 2:48 PM on Christmas eve. (Although I think I was grading on Christmas … [Read more…]
We had a terribly mild fall, warm enough to sit outside well into November, and then I got a snow storm for the night of my party. I guess there are a couple of up sides: despite the mild weather, it did cool down enough in November to make cookie storage OK in the vestibule, … [Read more…]
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Here’re pics of some of the cookie kinds I baked since last Sunday. [supsystic-slider id=13 ]
… into the home stretch … here comes [your horse name here] … and other racing metaphors. I can’t remember exactly how many kinds I’ve got done, and I’m way behind on pictures, but the two most time consuming kinds, the baby ruggelach, or nukhorns, and the spoon cookies (and I guess they’re called Lusikkaleivat … [Read more…]
The way the dates fall this year, and with the party on a Friday, I basically need to have everything baked by Monday the 12th, so I can pack boxes and ship them Monday and Tuesday, and then switch to party food for Friday. I have 12 kinds done, here’re the ones since Thanksgiving: [portfolio_slideshow … [Read more…]
We had 20 people at 2 big tables. Here’s the menu with notes: Apps – Goat cheese & ratatouille & baguette – a small container of ratatouille from the freezer, that I put in a baking dish, made a well where I put in a small hunk of a goat cheese log, baked, and poured … [Read more…]
Yesterday, Sunday, I waked up at the usual time, about 6:30, but just didn’t get out of bed. I’d changed over to flannel sheets on Saturday when the temperature dropped and I snuggled up with the cat and listened to the puzzle on NPR. It was a fun one, name anagrams of colleagues for the … [Read more…]