Skip to content

Category Archives: Uncategorized

It’s 2016!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

This is the 799th post to this blog, and it’s five years old. So, I thought it’s a good time for a new blog – up to HTML5 and responsive standards. Take a look as things develop – right here. (https://www.debslunch.com/blog/)

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged , , | Comments Off on It’s 2016!

The year I got a cold for Christmas

Saturday, December 26, 2015

It was just me, John, and Mark for Christmas. I got up and made a kind of cafe miel – the day before’s coffee heated in the microwave with a big slug of milk, then honey stirred in and a little cream dribbled in. Then I baked the cinnamon rolls that had been rising in […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments Off on The year I got a cold for Christmas

Cookie party aftermath/meltdown

Monday, December 21, 2015

  I’m “working” at home on a Monday – I’m going to call it a sick day, laptop in bed with me grading – also sleeping. I woke up with a ridiculously sore throat at 12:42 last night, choked down three tylenol, debated whether I had to go get cultured for strep, and then emailed […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments Off on Cookie party aftermath/meltdown

Global-warmed winter in WI

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

An interlude in cookie season. Yesterday I packed all the boxes for shipping. I think Hammie wanted to help. It was raining all the while I was packing cookies, not very hard, but it got harder after dark. I kept checking the towel dams, and everything was dry until the last time at 11:00 when […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments (0)

Endurance Baking

Monday, December 7, 2015

A few years ago I had an art exhibition at my supper club house. One of the artists wanted to do something related to women’s work, and talked about endurance baking for a couple of days, which struck me as funny, since I do endurance baking for 2 – 3 weeks every year at cookie […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments Off on Endurance Baking

I hate the coconut cookies this year

Friday, December 4, 2015

They’re big dumb galoots. But the Pfeffernusse are small and cute, as they should be, and the Packers won on a Hail Mary and all Wisconsin went to bed happy. And earlier in the day, I made another kind of coconut cookie, Maida Heatter’s chocolate coconut slices, that I think I tried once before, and […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged , | Comments Off on I hate the coconut cookies this year

Thanksgiving 2015 and cookie season

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

We got back to Madison on a rainy Thanksgiving Day, and I started prepping for dinner on Black Friday. I did the pies – pumpkin chiffon, apple with cider caramel sauce and crumble top, and the most raved about cooking mag dessert from Bitten Word, the grapefruit cornmeal cake from November 2015 Food and Wine. […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged , | Comments Off on Thanksgiving 2015 and cookie season

Cookie season & Thanksgiving 2015

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

OK, here’s the plan – I’m in Chicago, came down on the bus on Tuesday for the tree lighting. I started cookie season with the jam cookies on Sunday – 225 and they are all safe in the freezer – and on Monday, lebkuchen, or Basler Leckerli – a new blending of old recipes, plus […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged , | Comments Off on Cookie season & Thanksgiving 2015

A week of harvest food pickups

Monday, November 23, 2015

At my computer at 7:28 AM on a Saturday, because we were awakened by Mark’s cat, who was trying to bury something in the bed … I will spare you the scatological details, but they involved a long-haired cat with a hairy butt, and a misunderstanding of what things really must be buried in her […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged , , | Comments Off on A week of harvest food pickups

Long weekend in Minneapolis

Monday, November 16, 2015

  On Thursday, a terribly windy day, I sat on the upper deck of the double decker bus to the Twin Cities, to meet Mark who was already at the techy librarians conference. The bus was full and I had to share a seat, so I only got out my computer to shut it down […]

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Also filed in | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Long weekend in Minneapolis