Monster Cat: Prepared?
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Here’s a flower from the new garden because it’s been so gray (except yesterday) and now it’s going to be gray for another interminable period. At the old garden, the roses are exploding and the irises I planted last Fall are white. (Bulbs are fun because I always forget what I planted.)
There are 2 ovens in the new kitchen and this is the most exciting thing on the planet to me.
Last weekend, on a whim, Siobhan and I made toll house cookies as well as peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. We actually couldn’t keep up with the ovens, not that we were trying all that hard, but having 2 ovens makes 2 batches of cookies a very quick project! The peanut butter cookies were a tasty hybrid of traditional peanut butter cookies and toll house cookies but definitely needed more peanut butter.
Wednesday, I had bananas so I made some banana nut muffins. Also very tasty but in need of more nuts. Next time I make them I’ll probably double the volume of nuts. Again, 2 ovens rock.
Thursday night I made apple-cheddar-chicken sausage wrapped in crescent rolls. Very yummy, especially with Bruni’s home-made mustard.
Today there’s Amish maple bacon, which is not as tasty as I’d hoped. The sourdough starter is restarting on the counter after some significant neglect – bread Tuesday is probably a good plan. In the meantime I’m considering making different bread, since the waffles were waylaid by lack of syrup and lack of recipe as my cookbooks are still mostly packed.
Of course, really, I should just unpack the cookbooks and go from there…
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Many packages of holiday alchemy have been mailed and delivered. A few more await delivery. Goodies are packed to go to NH and Maine as well. 22+ pounds of butter gave their lives for this year’s baking. 18 batches of caramel corn came out of the kitchen. (Keeping in mind that each batch bakes for an hour, I think I’m done with caramel corn for a while.) The coffee machine, who has been dubbed Massimo, was my constant partner in baking and the Fop helped too. The cats were not so much with the helping.
The best part is that all this baking gets me out of wrapping gifts – the Fop gets to manage the paper, tape and such. This works well because I suck at wrapping and he claims to suck at baking. (Though I’ll have you all know that the Russian teacakes he scooped did NOT burst into flames or otherwise end the world.)
In tree news, I found 2 ornaments on the floor this morning. The cats showed incredible restraint for many days. I’m actually impressed. I also achieved the right magical relative height for the tree-watering thingie to work its siphoning magic. Which is great until the 2 liter soda bottle that supplies the water is about 2/3s empty and the cats knock it over. I’m pretty sure it’s one of the mini-cats knocking it over, probably Abby…
The remaining to-do list for between now and leaving for New England Thursday morning:
– Laundry (UGH!)
– Spice rub experiment
– Wrap gifts I can’t let the Fop wrap
– More laundry (double ugh!)
– Pack
– Sleeeeeeeeeeeeep
– Ponder writing holiday cards
I’m procrastinating cleaning my desk. Is anyone surprised?
Okay, it’s an ad for the Gap of all places… but it’s 2 years old and amusingly executed.
I’m not sure which is more disturbing: the original video or the overlay on the cartoon below it.
On one hand: Mummers.
On the other hand: Pegasus.
You be the judge. :)
It’s hard to go wrong with the Chieftains AND Great Big Sea! This was on the Chieftains’ album “Fire in the Kitchen” (1998) – one of my favorites. Enjoy the rich bass and baritones!
In the land of random open tabs I’ve been meaning to share, we have have the following: