I tried a slightly different kind of event this afternoon at School Woods – sort of a tea, an afternoon buffet of desserts and snacks. I thought the food was really nice. Only a small group of diners showed up to enjoy it, though – must be the weather, or who knows what. It’s snowing [...]
Click the map for what I did when I got home from working the polls – we registered 516 voters at my polling place! And almost 2500 voters all day.
On Saturday, I went up to Reedsburg to assist Terese Allen with a cooking class, demoing recipes from a couple of her books, for the fermentation fest. I made green tomato mincemeat bars – moist and hard to cut, but really yummy. Too bad it was such a rainy day, but I enjoyed the drive, [...]
A new form of dieting? Over the weekend, I kept thinking about what if I tried to photograph everything I eat, before I eat it. I started today. This is the multi-grain cereal I just had for breakfast at work – Heidi’s recipe, but I didn’t soak it over nigh this time, and I only [...]
At least, cooking and foodwise. I was in Minneapolis on Sunday & Monday, so it was road food then. I took plastic containers of yogurt & granola, and a banana & an apple for the bus, and filled my to-go cup with coffee. The refill coffee that I bought at the Pilot truck stop on [...]
First cookie kind: These are the ones that are kind of a sleeper – just a plain brown bar cookie, with a lemon & powdered sugar glaze that tastes mostly like raw cornstarch and too-sharp lemon at first. They age and mellow and the combination gets pretty special. I also made these fruit balls, that [...]
I made A LOT of cookies Sunday. And I started writing about them Monday, but somehow lost the post – oddly, since Word press usually is good about saving even when I don’t tell it to. Anyways, I made the dough for the nukhorns, 3X, 12 rounds of dough to be rolled out and filled [...]
Not quite sure what happened yesterday – I had big cookie plans that I did not quite achieve. The night before I came home from a latke party, and made cocnut cookies, and world peace cookie dough. Saturday morning, we slept in a bit, because it was still snowing, then we shoveled out the driveway [...]
Last night I made the cranberry-pistachio slice & bakes, one of my major disappointment last year – I mixed the eggs that you are supposed to use for egg wash to stick sugar onto the outside of the logs into the dough, and ended up with a softer, blander cookie. This year’s still seemed a [...]
Yesterday I had to come home from work a little early, to meet the furnace guy. I decided to indulge in a little nostalgia, and use up some of the excess mini-marshmallows and rice krispies leftover from prom night to make chocolate-topped, peanut butter flavored, rice krispie treats. I used to make them a lot [...]