So OK – it’s Saturday, and I’ve made 3 types of cookies so far: jam, Biberli (this shows last year’s “factory seconds”; this year’s are plumper & firmer), and lebkuchen; and even though all the fridges are stuffed with food, the turkey carcass has been dealt with. The bird was so big that I couldn’t even fit the whole carcass into my biggest stock pot – I had to break it into two sections. But the bones have been picked, and the broth has been strained, and everything’s washed.
I finally finished grading my students’ assignments this morning. we went to see the last Girl with Dragon Tattoo movie the other night, and I was again impressed by how much time they all spend eating and drinking coffee over their apple computers. I indulged myself, this a.m. with a bowl of oatmeal while grading.
Oatmeal with apples and bananas and brown sugar and half & half
‘Course, I think if I had a professional expresso machine with real china cups in my office, like the office of Blomkvist’s magazine, I’d pull an expresso and drink it over my computer, too, first thing on getting into work. And I had to fortify myself, because we are going to the Badger football game – I’m a stand-in for Mark’s regular football date, his son, who is off at a high school hockey tournament, up north.
Afterward, there’s a potluck, and I expect to be back to cookie baking by 10 p.m. – I hope to bake the ginger creams tonight, so I can frost them tomorrow.
9:18 p.m. post-potluck – here’s a photo of the pumpkin mousse – you can see my new iPhone taking the picture, reflected in the spoon. The 4G is a lot faster at sending the pictures – I was getting ready to give up on iPhone pictures for blogging, because it took so long to get them out of the iPhone and into the post – or I had to start the post with the Word Press iPhone app, to get the pictures in.
Pumpkin mousse on the Saturday after Thanksgiving
