This is the final day of my cookie and candy making. I made from top left of the bottom photo (red bowl) Cream Cheese Mints, Million Dollar Fudge, Divinity, (second row) Fattigmann, Cranberry Orange Biscotti, Apricot Cream Cheese Thumbprints, Scottish Shortbread, (bottom row) Berliner Brot. (Items without links were in prior days post). We have … [Read more…]
Well as you can see, I got a bit more done today. Another cookie and a candy. I made Apricot Cream Cheese Thumbprint cookies. This is always a favorite and I think this is the 3rd year I have made them. I have also made Cream Cheese Mints. Another favorite that I believe this is … [Read more…]
I got some cooking done today. The cookies on the left are Scottish Shortbread that I made with dark brown sugar. The one on the right is Divinity. I grew up LOVING Divinity. Sadly I grew up in the Pacific Northwest though so this meant that making Divinity was EXTREMELY hard. Humid, rainy or about … [Read more…]
Maximus created some great photos for me yesterday. I was going to update the blog about it yesterday afternoon but couldn’t. This shows snow on our windows. It was really coming sideways for a bit and sticking to everything. Then we lost power. That wasn’t so fun. Tony said he was on his way home … [Read more…]
I thought I would start showing on here some of the wonderful things we are cooking in our house. Here is my first post in that regard. Yesterday I was finally able to get plantains at Aldi (only 0.19 a piece!!) so today I asked Max if he wanted pancakes. Well if you know Max, … [Read more…]