We’re doing Black Friday Thanksgiving again, for the third time in a row, so it’s officially a family tradition. It puts us outta whack with the rest of the world a little, but it’s really nice (as Mark said when we were out walking yesterday) to have Thanksgiving as an empty day, for the cook […]
On Monday, I made the cinnamon-almond star cookies, that are gluten-free – Zimmetstern, and the peanut butter chocolate swirl brownies, Hootie Swirls. I tried out a new star cookie cutter, but I only made a few with it, since the points were too long and skinny, and kept getting plugged with dough. I also made […]
I took a couple of days off from cookies to do a cultural weekend in Chicago. I didn’t do any baking Friday, but I got my hair cut and then spent like 2 hours and close to $500 shopping for ingredients. I think I’ll do one last trip to Woodmans on Thanksgiving morning – […]
On Tuesday there was one box of cookies in the vestibule, the Joy of Cooking Lebkuchen, a cookie that’s supposed to improve with age. Wednesday night I made the jam cookies, and I thought I had six trays … obviously can’t count, since there were seven, although one tray is actually a small ceramic dish […]
Last night I made dough, for the jam cookies, and nukhorns, or the mini-ruggelach that I make tons of every year, (or pounds, literally; last year it says 15 lbs.) because they’re a family favorite. They should come out something like what you see after the line below. I am not going to bake the […]
So, (I just heard a piece on NPR, where their grammarian said listeners hate it when interviewers start a sentence with “so” – but this isn’t NPR) I had huge piles of work to-dos for the weekend; not sure I made it through enough of them, but I tried. In between work stuff, cookie season […]
Murals in Taos on Sunday, and breakfast and lunch in Santa Fe on Monday. And now back home, pumpkin pie.
Friday was a full conference day – opening keynote by Lorcan Dempsey who said a lot of good stuff about how we’re all in the network, and the network is us. What we do online transforms our behaviors in physical spaces, & vice-versa. Guess that’s behaviours for Lorcan. I didn’t go to as many sessions […]
So after the (disappointing to say the least) elections, I got up on Wednesday morning and went for a walk. To Union South, where I got a bunch of cash – for traveling and because I knew I was meeting the kids for dinner in Chicago at a restaurant that only takes cash. I got […]
I’m sitting at my computer with wet socks. My day’s schedule lays out like this – 9:00 to 10:30 – meeting; 11:00 to roughly 12:45 – come home, eat, and try to do as much work as possible before heading to be a poll worker from 1:00 until closing, like 9:30 or thereabouts. It’s cleaning […]