cookie season
A bunch of cookies
Here’re pics of some of the cookie kinds I baked since last Sunday. [supsystic-slider id=13 ]
Rounding the bend …
… 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…]
Cookie Countdown
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…]
Black Friday Thanksgiving 2016
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…]
Started off good, but
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…]
The daily grind
I started writing this on Sunday – I had some kind of idea about writing about weekend cooking – but here it is Tuesday and still not done. Not even not done; not even close. I’ll see if I can remember at least what we ate: On Friday, I had a normal work day – … [Read more…]