I took a couple of days off from cookies to do a cultural weekend in Chicago. I didn’t do any baking Friday, but I got my hair cut and then spent like 2 hours and close to $500 shopping for ingredients. I think I’ll do one last trip to Woodmans on Thanksgiving morning – […]
On Tuesday there was one box of cookies in the vestibule, the Joy of Cooking Lebkuchen, a cookie that’s supposed to improve with age. Wednesday night I made the jam cookies, and I thought I had six trays … obviously can’t count, since there were seven, although one tray is actually a small ceramic dish […]
Last night I made dough, for the jam cookies, and nukhorns, or the mini-ruggelach that I make tons of every year, (or pounds, literally; last year it says 15 lbs.) because they’re a family favorite. They should come out something like what you see after the line below. I am not going to bake the […]
So, (I just heard a piece on NPR, where their grammarian said listeners hate it when interviewers start a sentence with “so” – but this isn’t NPR) I had huge piles of work to-dos for the weekend; not sure I made it through enough of them, but I tried. In between work stuff, cookie season […]
After the party, I’ve made it tradition to play the cookie fairy. I hand deliver boxes of cookies, and take trays and plates of cookies to friends and work and people who either couldn’t make thaw party, or I owe a favor, or who I’d like to owe me one. So far this year, I’ve […]
Cookie season isn’t over yet, but it’s winding down. The party was Friday. It was a particularly nice one, somehow. Here’s what there was to eat: Buffalo chicken dip from the Frank’s hot sauce website, with celery sticks – coulda made a double batch. 5 pounds of hamburger made into cocktail meatballs – there were […]
Trying to make up for not writing since last Sunday – here’re cookie platters and other shots from this years’s party. More Real Soon Now™
What a day. Got up and made the Boomerangs, a.k.a Rose’s Crescents. That went well, although I think they’re a touch on the large side. Pictures are in the prior post. But things kind of went downhill from there. I was going to walk downtown and get my work laptop. I thought I’d need it […]
Friday I made all things almond & stars – the cinnamon almond stars, and the almond cookies with chocolate stars glued on top. I had to take the old Toyota that John’s been driving out to Monona Motors to get checked over. It’s a 2003, that Mark inherited from his dad and I bought from […]
Since I haven’t written since Saturday, lets see if I can recreate. [and started this post on like Monday, and finishing it Thursday night …] I worked on the systems analysis final all day on Saturday. I really got stumped on the last part of the last, 5-part question – it required a UML diagram, […]