Shocker
To the system that is. I mean to get up at 4:00 again, and to go to the gym, and to eat healthy foods once more. J
Month: December 2008
Recooperation from vacation
Today I did nothing at all but sit around being lazy. Went to bed early last night, and stayed there late this morning. Got up and had coffee on the sofa with a book and pretty much stayed there until the book was read. Next up was lunch and then...
Merry Christmas
Whether you’re spending it with family or with friends, or you happen to be lucky enough to be in the company of coworkers today, have a beautiful day. J
Of all the breads in all of the world…
I can’t believe that I’ve never made brioche before. The dough for this bread is the most silky-smooth, beautiful, baby’s-bum of doughs that I’ve ever seen. That is likely entirely due to the butter content (3 sticks for two loaves). Such a pissa that the bread making is a two-day...
Today’s bakes
Now we can add to the list orange brownie buttons which, on Wednesday, will be donned with white chocolate caps. Hazelnut tea cookies which are my new favorite cookie (I had to throw them into the freezer quickly to keep myself from eating them all). White chocolate peppermint bark (still...
Progress
Now we’ve also got molasses cookies. And little green almond spritz. And sugar cookies. And I’m waiting for a cranberry orange corn meal ricotta cake to cool for tonight’s dessert. We’ll scarf that after our dinner of pernil, yucca, rice and breadsticks. I’m hoping that everything tastes as good as...
Let the baking begin!
So far I’ve done chewy peanut butter cookies. There is a batch of dark chocolate, cherry, hazelnut fudge in the fridge, cooling. Dolce de leche cookies are being baked as I type, to be later made into cookiewiches, probably with a chocolate frosting (something dark and rich, but not too...
Oh the weather outside is frightful
I woke up throughout the night to see fluffy snow falling. By the time I left for the gym at 4:45 it was freezing rain. When I left the gym for home it was hailing. The roads were very messy and easy to slip on. Why couldn’t Mother Nature have...
What a weekend
This weekend was not at all what I had expected it to be, but it was great none-the-less. We had one thing on the calendar for Saturday night and that was it. It turns out that even though I had put Aunt Sue’s holiday open house on the calendar for...
I feel like I’m 100 years old today
Give me a little bit of heavy lifting for an afternoon and I’ll whine about it for a week. But I have tiny bruises up my forearms and biceps, and dotting down my thighs from poor lifting technique while moving a friend. And my back feels like I was humping...