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…]
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…]
… cookie fairy escapades, grading, working remotely constantly, and all the way up to Christmas Eve. Sunday morning after the party I washed the last serving platter at 9:37. I made this cranberry ginger cake from Milk Street Kitchen that I had had a vision of serving warm with mascarpone whipped cream at the party, … [Read more…]
So, I think it was a slightly smaller party than last year. On the one hand, I got a lot of regrets from friends who almost always come. On the other hand, a few people who I’ve invited for years, who’ve never been able to make it, showed up for the first time. I was … [Read more…]
I must be done because I’m out of containers to put cookies in. It’s Wednesday and the party is Saturday. I made two last cookie kinds today, although they’re not actually all the way done – the almond rainbow bars will need to glazed and cut in the morning, and the teeny hazelnut baci – … [Read more…]
Pics now, explanations later. No time; pics will just have to stand on their own! And that’s not counting Sunday, ruggelach and bar cookies. And somewhere’s in there, Saturday afternoon, I think, I made the Rose’s Crescents, and what I am now calling pecan snowballs, trying to be culturally sensitive, avoiding other names with a … [Read more…]
When cookie season is terribly compressed. Not enough weekends, and the ones I do have, I keep giving up for trips to Chicago. I’ve made one cookie kind so far, the lebkuchen. This year I tried a new recipe, from King Arthur Flour, and I kinda like it. I made my normal batch using the … [Read more…]
In the spirit of this year, it’s Tuesday and I’m only just getting to writing about the party that happened on Saturday. Originally I thought I’d get all the boxes packed Wednesday to mail Thursday but that didn’t happen. Instead I was up until 2:00 AM Thursday night/Friday morning packing, and mailed on Friday. I … [Read more…]
To the end of my list of cookie kinds to make, that is. No almond rainbow bars. Here’s what I had by Wednesday. The chocolate toffee bars look blurry, but I made another batch Sunday (a.k.a. post-party, but more on that in a minute.) Raspberry almond bars, good batch this year. Peppermint pattie brownies – … [Read more…]
So this year is the first cookie season in a long time without the black cat, Ivy of our Holly & Ivy duo. She had to be put down in February. She was the smarter and more trouble-making one of the two, and she loved people food. She’d steal your egg off your plate if … [Read more…]