I’m hoping that the superstition I have always sorta believed, that as your New Year’s Day goes, so goes the new year for you, doesn’t always come true. Because I didn’t have the greatest day yesterday, New Year’s Day. On our walk the day before, the morning of NYE, I fell on some ice and … [Read more…]
This is the nowhere week between Christmas and New Year’s, that I usually like, probably based on when it was a school holiday when I was a kid, when we did fun stuff like sledding, and later when I was an older kid, in college, it was also fun, being back home and seeing who … [Read more…]
I had a bunch of cooking plans on Xmas Eve, two pages in my little notebook. Continuing using up cookie leftovers and CSA box produce, sourdough bread plans (my sourdough has gotten way too big, BTW, even though I’ve only been feeding it half cups of flour & water. I might have to actually discard … [Read more…]
My first day of winter break started with various cooking adventures to keep using up my produce from my CSA Thanksgiving box. Specifically, wilting coleslaw and roasting beets. Mark was going for his regular long loop walk, and I said I’d go too, and peel off at Whole Foods, because we needed lettuce and sour … [Read more…]
OK so, I started writing this on Saturday, when I finished grading at about 3:00PM. Yay! And am now finishing it up on Monday afternoon, after spending the day cleaning up email, finally writing that recommendation letter for the student who asked for it 2 months ago, delivering cookies, one last minute online Xmas gift … [Read more…]
And, I realize it’s incredibly privileged to be calling this pandemic year “weird”. Everyone in my family is working remotely, still getting paid, relatively safe. But in terms of cookie season in the pandemic year, it’s weird. I am vacillating between borderline depression, feeling like nothing’s coming out right, and moments of feeling happy and … [Read more…]
Because we had such a small Thanksgiving, pandemic-diminished, held on Black Friday as is our tradition, I got to use even more of Thanksgiving Day for cookies. I started by making the lebkuchen, since that’s one of cookie kinds that’s supposed to age a bit before eating. I’ve been making these forever, and tried lots … [Read more…]
For Thanksgiving, I usually make a giant bucket of chex mix, and torment my family with it. We eat it while we’re waiting for dinner. There’s nothing like real butter and fresh garlic to make tempting junk food even more addictive. I didn’t make pickled carrots, either. We cancelled our 6-person, socially distanced, out in … [Read more…]
We needed water softener salt, so I decided to make the week’s shopping expedition a Costco run. And I figured I might as well go ahead and get the cookie ingredients that I get at Costco, like the 36 pounds of butter that even at Woodman’s gets me a lot of WTF looks, but at … [Read more…]
Sometimes negative is positive. Like Saturday morning when I got my most recent Covid test results back as negative – that’s good because it means I don’t have the virus, even after working the election almost 2 weeks ago. I waited to give it time to incubate. Sometimes positive is negative. Like this whole election … [Read more…]