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 […]
Somehow, I ended up with way too much sour cream in the fridge – I think the chain of events started with buying Costco lettuce for the brunch last Sunday, a.k.a. more than I needed, so I served salad at the dinner last Tuesday, instead of spinach dip, and because I had a coupon, I […]
Soup, bread and salad for dinner sounded good to 24 grownups and 5 kids under seven, on a frigid night in late January, last Thursday’s dinner. But did I take a single picture? Nope. I tried to plan things so that people could be as acetic or extravagant in their food choices as they wished […]