It's December, who's got holiday plans and want to share while they procrastinate actually acting on them ;D?
We're heading off to Sudbury for a couple weeks with the in-laws. I must bring my jogging shoes because my mother in law puts out such a spread I'm lucky to get out of there only 5 lb heavier than I arrived.
I have made a completely unreasonable list of things I want to bake to give as Xmas presents. I've already spent almost $200 on ingredients, so baking is what everyone's getting under the tree! Along with wine, mead, jams and jellies and maybe even some homemade cider vinegar.
I've got a few gluten-free things for my mom, a few sugar-free things for the various diabetics in the family, and I'm keeping a list and checking it twice so I can tell people what's milk-free, what's nut-free, what's soy-free, what's palm and coconut free... OMG why does everyone have to have dietary issues... oh well, I enjoy the challenge. I'm trying a few recipes I haven't tried before (including Turkish Delight), I'm going to make a bunch of the usual suspects (sugar cookies, gingerbread, date balls, rice krispie squares, peanut brittle, almond brittle, pecan brittle, rumballs, orange-cranberry-dark chocolate cookies, traditional Scottish shortbreads, chocolate truffles and Stollen).
So far I've got some dough in the freezer (oatmeal cookies, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, orange-cran-choc cookies and I'll probably get the peanut butter cookie dough done tonight too), but I don't want to bake cookies yet, I'll do that halfway through December so they haven't sat around for a month... I'll do the nut brittles next week, they're OK for a few months so it's not too early, I have another day of jamming to do (maybe Sunday, I pay extra for electricity during weekdays ), and then
OK, enough procrastinating, back to the kitchen with me!!
<cracks the whip>
We're heading off to Sudbury for a couple weeks with the in-laws. I must bring my jogging shoes because my mother in law puts out such a spread I'm lucky to get out of there only 5 lb heavier than I arrived.
I have made a completely unreasonable list of things I want to bake to give as Xmas presents. I've already spent almost $200 on ingredients, so baking is what everyone's getting under the tree! Along with wine, mead, jams and jellies and maybe even some homemade cider vinegar.
I've got a few gluten-free things for my mom, a few sugar-free things for the various diabetics in the family, and I'm keeping a list and checking it twice so I can tell people what's milk-free, what's nut-free, what's soy-free, what's palm and coconut free... OMG why does everyone have to have dietary issues... oh well, I enjoy the challenge. I'm trying a few recipes I haven't tried before (including Turkish Delight), I'm going to make a bunch of the usual suspects (sugar cookies, gingerbread, date balls, rice krispie squares, peanut brittle, almond brittle, pecan brittle, rumballs, orange-cranberry-dark chocolate cookies, traditional Scottish shortbreads, chocolate truffles and Stollen).
So far I've got some dough in the freezer (oatmeal cookies, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, orange-cran-choc cookies and I'll probably get the peanut butter cookie dough done tonight too), but I don't want to bake cookies yet, I'll do that halfway through December so they haven't sat around for a month... I'll do the nut brittles next week, they're OK for a few months so it's not too early, I have another day of jamming to do (maybe Sunday, I pay extra for electricity during weekdays ), and then
OK, enough procrastinating, back to the kitchen with me!!
<cracks the whip>