Planned Parenthood of WI is celebrating its 75th birthday with 75 house parties in Wisconsin – and I decided to host one. (I’m a huge philanthropist – in December, I give $25 here and $50 there to lots of organizations, up to the max I can deduct on my taxes, and Planned Parenthood is always […]
Or, as one of my librarian colleagues calls it, “my new second job.” The city of Madison is still pleased with our Midwestern polite behavior. I made cookies again, oatmeal raison, and I added chocolate chips, using the recipe from under the lid of the box of Quaker Quick Oats that I inherited from Al […]
One of the first things I did when I moved to Wisconsin in August of 1977 was go walk the picket line at Madison Newspapers, Inc., where the printers were on strike, and the editorial union, the writers, went out in support. The technology changed and the company didn’t give the workers a chance to […]
Over the weekend, we went from arctic to temperate – it was in the mid-30s on Saturday, and up to 46°s on Sunday. A huge amount of the snowpack has melted, but fortunately, we’ve been having warm wind that evaporates everything – no rain – so even though there are some [deep] puddles in the […]
Not quite sure what happened yesterday – I had big cookie plans that I did not quite achieve. The night before I came home from a latke party, and made cocnut cookies, and world peace cookie dough. Saturday morning, we slept in a bit, because it was still snowing, then we shoveled out the driveway […]
… are a lot of work. But they’re so charming. My brother calls them the little hamburgers – he would; that’s what they look like to a vegetarian. The original plan for last night was to make the Sambuca crinkles, then bake the spoon cookies, then, while they were cooling, make the coconut cookies. Ha. […]
I bagged baking early last night. I chocolate-glazed the Molly Wizenberg dried fruit balls, and I think they’re going to be really good this year; I used more prunes than figs, and Grand Marnier, and really good chocolate. I made the fruit cake gems, and I think I bought 1/4 inch larger bon bon cups, […]
Yesterday morning, when I opened up the closed-off and & closed-heat-vent sun room, where I had left the naked ginger creams so that the cats wouldn’t try to steal them, the smell of gingerbread made all the late night baking worthwhile. mmm, like the ghosts of Christmas past. I made a lot of the ginger […]
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 […]