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Feb26

Baking, Baking, Baking. . .

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Baking, Baking, Baking. . .

I won’t go into details, but I can’t really leave the house today. Tomorrow was going to be a baking day, because we have a band concert and a marching band event coming up this week that I promised baked goods for (yes, I know that was bad sentence construction. . .). Well, since I’m going to have to put off ’til tomorrow what I can’t do today, I’m baking.

I’m almost done with the white chocolate chip macadamia cookies, and the regular chocolate chip cookies will follow. I was going to just bring those to both functions, but then it occurred to me. . .Saturday is a Saint Patrick’s Day dinner, and I have a killer Irish Soda Bread recipe!

I’ll have to make it either later tonight, or tomorrow depending on whether I can leave the house later, because two double batches of cookies have put a serious dent in my supply of flour, butter, and sugar. It’s OK, though. I can also pick up aluminum pans and bake several soda breads at once. Both cookies and breads freeze well, which is a good thing since I won’t be able to do anything Thursday, Friday, or Saturday morning.

Now, I just want to squeeze this one little thing in. . .I love baking in an electric oven. I never thought I’d feel that way, but after all the years of throwing burned things away when I had gas ovens, it’s wonderful to know that there’ll be almost no difference between the stuff baked on the top rack and the stuff baked on the bottom one. I think I’d still rather have a gas stove, but only for cooking, not cleaning. I have one of those ceramic cooktops, and I had to get all new pots and pans that would work with it. It’s more consistent than an electric coil, but it takes a long time to cool down. Ah, but cleaning it. . .whenever I get irritated about it being electric, I just try to remember having to disassemble a gas stove to clean it, and the hours it took to get all the gunk out because I was the first one to think about what might be under there. . .

You know what else I love? Cookie scoops. I have five or six different sizes, and I use them for cookies, muffins, cupcakes, even ravioli and samosa fillings. And my KitchenAid stand mixer, I’ve loved that for years, even when I have to hammer the hinge pin back in. And commercial bakeware that doesn’t have that stupid nonstick surface that sticks to the food but not the metal. Yeah, I need more of that stuff.

Feb23

Time to Update Phones

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Time to Update Phones

Ah, off to the mall. Thank goodness hubby did all the numbers work so we know which store to shop in for the proprietary phone that can’t possibly work with any other wireless service so don’t even try! Next I think we’ll have to get the signal booster that mounts on the roof so we can actually use the phones at home. We’re too close to the nearest tower, so we’re under the signal. If I could get a signal, I’d be using up my minutes every month.

The snow from yesterday is partially melted and looking ugly, so you won’t get that picture I promised yesterday. Not that I mind the snow melting, that’s for certain.

Feb22

Snow Day!!!

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Snow Day!!!

When I looked out and saw snow, I thought with dread that we’d have one of those stupid delayed openings for school. It’s one thing when a delay gives the town time to clear the roads, quite another when the snowfall clearly has a long way to go before it lets up. Thank goodness they decided to go along with the rest of the surrounding districts and cancel. I’ll take a picture later, since it’ll at least LOOK nice, even though I hate the fluffy white stuff.