{"id":1257,"date":"2016-11-21T21:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2016-11-22T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T22:34:44","slug":"started-off-good-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/started-off-good-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Started off good, but"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Sunday, I waked up at the usual time, about 6:30, but just didn&#8217;t get out of bed. I&#8217;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 new weekend host, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro. NPR is doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/09\/15\/494061138\/npr-shifts-host-roles-for-morning-edition-weekend-edition-sunday\">a little host shuffle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNCF6D_jkVt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday morning https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/81XcBH<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by deb (@debslunch) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-11-20T12:54:28+00:00\">Nov 20, 2016 at 4:54am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I got up and went for a walk, still all good. I got coffee and stopped at Whole Foods for some lemons and pecans for cookies. Saturday after we got back from Chicago, I had gone out and did a lot of Thanksgiving -, cookie -, and re-stocking-the-house-shopping, but I keep thinking of additional things. Part of the process of shuffling my cookie plans madly; make plans to bake a cookie kind, and then &#8220;I&#8217;m too tired for that one now; I&#8217;ll do it later&#8221;. I&#8217;ve got jam cookie dough in the fridge waiting to be baked, and one cookie kind in the vestibule.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1260\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1260\" class=\"wp-image-1260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1stkind.jpg\" alt=\"1stkind\" width=\"565\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1stkind.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1stkind-130x150.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1stkind-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only one solitary cookie kind in the vestibule now, Lebkuchen<\/p><\/div>I made oatmeal and a fruit salad for breakfast and then went up to do some work. Got the lecture recorded and uploaded for one of my classes (actually re-recorded because I&#8217;d done it Wednesday afternoon, and then decided it was no good &#8211; that I needed to update the slides and re-do the voice over.) Then I spent about 2 hours trying to get PHP includes to work, for an exercise for the 2:30 lab in my class. I never got it, but it gave us something to do in class Monday &#8211; and I finally did figure it out with the students&#8217; help.<\/p>\n<p>I worked until about 4:30, then went out to put gas in Mark&#8217;s car and pick up yet a few more items &#8211; bag of apples from Willy Street so I can make applesauce for Thanksgiving, oats, Crisco and molasses from Sentry for Moravian ginger thins &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For Sunday dinner, I made a version of Melissa Clark&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/1016965-brown-butter-skillet-cornbread\">brown butter and maple syrup cornbread<\/a> that didn&#8217;t overflow all over the oven &#8211; I find her recipes a bit under-tested &#8211; but I know lots of people who love them. Belana was out so I enjoyed one wedge of the cornbread and the rest&#8217;ll go into the turkey stuffing. Now that my Thanksgiving CSA winter storage share box has arrived, I wanted to use up some odds &amp; ends of veggies from the prior, season extension box. I had half a giant sweet potato, turnips, celeriac, carrots, and a couple of small potatoes. I chunked up everything and boiled it in milk &#8211; except for the turnips. Those I sauteed in butter along with some onion. The I put the whole mess into a baking dish, keeping back a little of the milk. Scattered cheese on &amp; baked it and it tasted pretty good, if&nbsp; not terribly attractive &#8211; I was thinking of it as garbage gratin. But the celeriac was a bit stringy and the turnips a bit bitter. I decided garbage gratin should go in the garbage in the morning. I also made a cranberry slab pie for a Partners in Giving (yes they called it PIG) bake off at the libraries on Monday. I won third prize, and also received a little calendar book from Silver Buckle Press, just for baking something.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday evening shirking cookies, I watched some TV &#8211; I like Michelle Dockery&#8217;s new series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tntdrama.com\/shows\/good-behavior.html\">Good Behavior<\/a> &#8211; all the while thinking this is going to be some of my last Sunday night TV for a few weeks, because of cookie season, but I&#8217;m having trouble getting going with the cookies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday after work I blanched a bunch of almonds for the Biberli &#8211; you pour boiling water over and slip the skins off &#8211; although the ones that won&#8217;t slip you have to scrape with fingernails, which isn&#8217;t much fun. I fully intended to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/biberli-400x400.jpg\">Biberli<\/a>&nbsp;Monday night but wimped. I made oatmeal-pecan-dried cherry cookies, for an extra&nbsp; Thanksgiving dessert, and to leave with the girls when I go to Chicago. So, cookies but not really cookie season cookies. Looks like instead I&#8217;m heading for TV, early bed, Biberli in the AM. It&#8217;s a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yea, and it&#8217;s my dad&#8217;s yahrzeit &#8211; 18 years since he died. And I&#8217;m so lame, I didn&#8217;t have a yahrzeit candle, so I just lighted a candle, and had some triscuit &amp; spreadin&#8217; cheese sandwiches when I came in from work, like he did. No gin, though, because I thought I&#8217;d be up baking. Hmm, maybe gin &amp; TV, early bed, Biberli in the AM. 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