![]() I am lucky enough to join a high school friend for Christmas Eve dinner every year, and her mom always includes squares of incredible linzer torte in her array of Holiday Baking Wonders. ![]() I mean, sure there’s something else you could contribute to the holiday baking curriculum, maybe one of your favorites instead?Īnd this has been my feeling about linzer torte for all of the years since we first met at this url in 2006. It’s their thing, not yours, thus there’s clearly no way you could do it justice. It feels almost wrong to make someone else’s signature dish, to meddle. ![]() These are a perfect cross of fudge and brownie, but all in one perfect cookie shape.I think if you were to rank foods in order of how intimidating they are to cook, at the bottom of the list would be stuff you throw together any night of the week without a recipe, the top would be basically anything Grant Achatz has ever made and then maybe, just barely a notch below would be a dish that someone you love and respect makes so perfectly that you consider it to be “their” recipe. I don’t know what took me so long to try these. I clipped them out of the paper long ago and they are attributed to Maida Heatter Queen of baking. In the meantime, I’m just going to offer the Salvation Army truck driver some cookies. Hopefully, with all this gone, my head will soon clear and I will be able to focus on candles. I’ve had numerous inquiries on Craig’s List for said TV, but no one ever follows through. It served us well and I will not be sorry to see it go. Well, tomorrow Salvation Army comes to pick up our STUFF. ![]() I’ve been so crazed that I showed up at the doctor’s a day early. But this girl is on a mission, and failure is not an option. Well, if that was the case, I’d be rich! And besides I haven’t even found any of those I like. He tells me just to go get expensive ones because time is money. Yes, I’m going a bit overboard, you might say Manservant does say. I am tired of venturing out to at least 6 stores, just to find candles. I’ve totally given up on finding pillars. I’ve already bought 18 tapers and still need at least 4 more. I love Vance Kittera candles but his blue is so faint, I think it is gray. Using them means there are no leftover candles to start a fire with. Really, have folks forgotten how to light a match? They spread no warmth they have no wax to clean up and they always have batteries that need replacing. Michaels has really cheap candles, but they burn fast.Īnd what’s with all this LED crap? These are not candles. Expensive boutiques always have candles, but not always tapers or reasonably priced cylinders. I have good luck with tapers from Hobby Lobby. I do not like to spend a fortune on candles, so I am careful where I shop. Now one might think that finding candles is easy. Honestly, I feel the thermostat rise, when they are burning. I love the feeling of warmth that candles give. My friends that know me well, know my home is lit by candlelight in the winter. There are a few that would say that was just an excuse not to study but we won’t name names.īetween getting everything put away and bringing out all of my menorahs and other important artifacts of the holidays, I am going crazy. In college I couldn’t study if things were out of place. I need to feel a certain sense of order around me. Who knew that moving one piece of art would create reasons to move three more? And how does all that damn dust ever get behind those hanging paintings? And I never knew that nails could rust if they are pounded into a wall. What I don’t love is all the mess that this creates. I’m one of those that arranges according to the season. I love new arrangements of knickknacks and other common hoi polloi. This is good in the sense that I love cleaning out and throwing away. Just like a dog who searches for the best place to bury his bone, I’ve been looking for the perfect place for that certain picture or piece of furniture. Melt your chocolate and butter in the microwave, then shape and bake!Įver since I’ve been back from Phoenix I’ve been working like a dog to get everything put away. Chocolate Fudge Cookies are a little bit cookie and a little bit fudge.
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