This morning I tried a recipe for carrot jam, from the most recent Food & Wine Magazine. I had macerated the carrots over night with sugar and lemon juice and cinnamon sticks and whole cloves. I started cooking the whole mess while I was doing laundry. The recipe said 40 minutes, or til the carrots are shiny – I think I let it go closer to an hour, because I was hanging all my gentle wash stuff to dry, on the shower rod, after I took my shower. So I ended up with candied carrot shreds, some caramelized to the almost burnt phase. Still good with ricotta, as the recipe recommended, and might make good carrot muffins. [think I figured out the perfect thing to do with the candied carrot shreds – combine with green tomato mincemeat for spice bars!]
on a spoon of ricotta – click to see jarred
I was kind of determined not to work at all, but of course I ended up doing some. I’m so special, I am assigned to work on two chapters of the School’s accreditation report, instead of only one like most people got. Looks like I am going to have do more revising on my paper for systems analysis class than I thought, too, that is if I hope to get a decent grade. Sigh. The teacher and I have different ideas of what is a literature review and what is original research – for this paper, I think I am not doing any original research, I am just reporting on the research of others … he said using citations in my analysis section diluted it??!! aargh …
I wanted to try out this recipe from Fine Cooking, for peanut butter sandwich cookies – it just seemed like there was no way it could work – no flour, just nut butter, eggs & sugar. I used some almond butter I inherited from Rach (think I was with her when she bought it at the outdoor farmers market last summer, and some hanging baskets of flowers, while she was selling her house), some older almond butter that I had lurking in the fridge, and some Whole Foods creamy all-natural peanut butter. I think the cookies would be flatter with commercial peanut butter – but these seem just fine to me. A keeper; add to cookie pantheon.
Nut butter sandwich cookies
I made my cookie list for this year, the main thing I wanted to accomplish today. That and send out the initial “save the date” to friends for the party. I’ve done some of the King Arthur online shopping – should have waited because it was 20% off this weekend, rats. Next week I will brave Costco and Woodmans for more cookie ingredients, aiming for some off time, like a weekday morning, if I can.
This year’s list left – 32 kinds, though one is a question mark
