{"id":9522,"date":"2014-11-16T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2014-11-16T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:29:32","slug":"weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/weekend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1st weekend of cookie season"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, (I just heard a piece on NPR, where their grammarian<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

In between work stuff, cookie season began. I made my cookie list with Megan’s cat Ham “helping” – lying across my papers and my arms while I tried to write. I’ve laid in some of the ingredients, like today I got honey and jam and various candies that go in or on cookies, like red and green M&Ms and chocolate stars. I’ve placed two King Arthur Flour<\/a> orders, and have plans to do the rest of the shopping. Currently there’s about 15 lbs. of flour and 11 pounds of sugar and 7 pounds of butter in the house – a mere fraction of the total. Shopping’s a little trickier this year, since Mark’s in Chicago half time, and sometimes has the car. And I’m just so stupid busy, hard to plan a time to take off and buy mass quantities of butter, flour and sugar. The list says 30 cookie kinds in 20 days. Sure<\/em>, I can. I’m hoping to not get demoralized, like I was last year – I’d take a picture, and decide that the same cookie as made the year before, or even two years before, looked a lot better. Case in point:<\/p>\n

\"cinnamon<\/a>

2013 cinnamon stars<\/p><\/div>\n

compared to<\/p>\n

\"Cinnamon<\/a>

2012 cinnamon stars<\/p><\/div>\n

You can see that the meringue topping is whiter and more solid in 2012. I think I didn’t whip the whites enough in ’13.<\/p>\n

Or even:<\/p>\n

\"went<\/a>

went flat linzer thumprints<\/p><\/div>\n

from 2013, vs.<\/p>\n

\"Thumbprints\"<\/a>

Thumbprints<\/p><\/div>\n

from 2011.<\/p>\n

At least I don’t have systems analysis class this year … and the party’s got a great date – 12-13-14!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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