I am suffering from cookie guilt – that feeling that I’m just not doing enough. On Thursday evening, I went to what I thought was going to be Recall Walker training, but turned out to be phone banking. Although not an unpleasant experience, for two reasons: 1) the technology has improved dramatically since the last […]
On this same night, November 30th, one year ago in cookie season, I allowed as how I was being a wimp – knocking off early. But it looks as if I made three kinds of cookies that night (or at least glazed a kind, and mixed a dough, and baked one kind) – and tonight […]
A year ago October, I went to Pittsburgh for a metadata conference, and stayed an extra day to wander around and visit, including a visit to my parents’ grave. Where I was quite surprised to find that they’d never set the marker for my mom. Even though we’d paid the cemetery some $4000 to open […]
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 […]
The cookie fairy has been making her appointed rounds all week, taking cartons and platters of cookies to people who didn’t make the party, or who live too close by for it to be worth it to mail – tho, I have to admit, Sally’s house off Junction Rd, is really the outskirts of Madison […]
I guess, if last year was the cookie season with a broken thumb, this year was the cookie party of the blizzard. We had about 40 – 50 people, which is probably 1/3 to 1/2 the usual number. (100+ folks). I think I’ve been too buried under snow, or cookies, or both, to write. On […]
Wednesday was the last night of cookie baking, then I shifted over to apps. I made the hazelnut truffles, a recipe from the December 2001 Gourmet, that seems to be one of those issues with just a lot of good stuff – these truffles (hotly debated in the recipe forums – “Not really a truffle […]
Tuesday was ruggelach night. Well, I glazed the rainbow cookies with chocolate, and cut them up, and I made the windmill dough logs and chilled them to be sliced & baked, but mostly it was all ruggelach, all the time, 6:00 – 11:00. I got a new, giant Tupperware from the nearby hardware store that […]
Monday I had a meeting, so I didn’t start baking till close to 8 p.m. I made the Moravian Ginger Thins, but I don’t think they’re as thin as last years, which seems odd to me since last year I was rolling with broken thumb. I decided to make a double batch of the rainbow […]
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 […]