A big box store?:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
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A big box store?:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
That's cute salsa :D
I baked cookies today, Pistachio-Cranberry Biscotti and Lemon-Honey Drops. I still need to do the Rasberry Strippers, and possibly some Orange-Spice Madeleines.
I played World of Warcraft for 5 1/2 hours.
Ummmm, maybe I shouldn't admit that...
Snap - you have freshly baked cookies? I'm on my way over!
Snap -- Could you please post the recipe for the raspberry ones?
For tomorrow's Holiday Party at work, I made Veronica's oatmeal (added semi-sweet chips & white choc chips) and M&M cookies. I was going to make Thumbprints but it was too labor intensive. I've been on dog watch. My 4-month old golden is going through a "hell on paws" phase of utter badness and today, the minx chewed up my expensive reading specs. I can't use the cheapo drugstore kind, unfortunately, so they are in the hospital. My only pair. Boohoo. The doc changed my script for distance, so now it's even tougher to make do and not put on my "low beams" for reading. I'm dreading the $$$$ -- new lenses and ear pieces. There's a little damage to the temple, but I'll live with it (they are very nice TITANIUM frames).
Uhm, maybe not :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Too late, Knot and Trek. We're already planning the intervention. We think it should be at Red Hook Brewery, somewhere around lunchtime...
TE ride to RedHook!!!!!! :p :D :p
Here they be! The recipe is from Cooking Light Magazine. I've made them with both raspberry preserves and apricot preserves. Both are wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Velobambina
Raspberry Strippers
1/3 cup granulated sugar
5 tablespoons butter or stick margarine, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg white
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Cooking spray
1/3 cup raspberry or apricot preserves
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 375°.
Beat granulated sugar and butter with a mixer at medium speed until well-blended (about 5 minutes). Add 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla and egg white; beat well. Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt, stirring well with a whisk. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, stirring until well-blended. (Dough will be stiff.)
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough in half. Roll each portion into a 12-inch log. Place logs 3 inches apart on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Form a 1/2-inch-deep indentation down the length of each log using an index finger or end of a wooden spoon. Spoon preserves into the center. Bake at 375° for 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove logs to a cutting board.
Combine powdered sugar, lemon juice, and almond extract; stir well with a whisk. Drizzle sugar mixture over warm logs. Immediately cut each log diagonally into 12 slices. (Do not separate slices.) Cool 10 minutes; separate slices. Transfer slices to wire racks. Cool completely.
Yield: 2 dozen (serving size: 1 cookie)
Guess what my mother got for her birthday from me this year?
Not only does this new girl (with the ponderous name Tarantella) love her new home, but she is getting along famously with the previously lonely other kitty.
the second photo is of their first meeting. No growls or hissing!
http://home.comcast.net/~emudd/tt_thnx_small.jpg
Ooooh, what pretty cats! Does that new kitty have "thumbs"?
Aweeee..... Buddies at first sight!
yes, the new kitty has thumbs. 6 toes on each front foot and 5 on each back foot
Awwwww - very cute kitties, mimi!
My DD just adopted another kitten. Her original name was Lucille but she was flirting with everyone on the subway, and everyone was giving her so much attention that she has been renamed Lola, because.....well......"whatever Lola wants, Lola gets!" :rolleyes:
Snap--Thanks! They look scrumptious.
Oh, look. It's...raining. Huh. What a surprise.
CC, how's walking around with your knee going? (you know what I mean...)
YES! Beer will make up for cold weather. Though do we have to ride back? I'm thinking that the ride there would be lovely but after beer and food and warmth, a genie should do the transporting back.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Mimi, rescue kitty? They are the best!
yes, she's a rescue kitty. was never actually wild. They caught her mother and put her in a bathroom and she had 7 kittens that night.
and she's doing just great.
I'm with you Teigyr...made the mistake a few times in riding to and stopping and drinking at Redhook in Woodinville, then dragging my butt in riding like a slug back to Gasworks, muttering and wondering to myself why we didn't plan to finish the ride and stop at the Redhook in Fremont (now, Hale's Ales is the post-ride brewery stop of choice!)...Quote:
Originally Posted by teigyr
So, I recommend either starting at Redhook, so that we can end up there or start/finish at either Gasworks or in Fremont on the trail...then the "genie" issue is unnecessary - voila!
I'm ashamed (or is it proud?) to admit I have NO CLUE how to get to RedHook by car. Only by bike!
I like the idea of start-end at the same place during the colder weather.
when is this ride you guys are talking about? (even though I don't drink beer)
Don't think we've figured out that minor detail yet...:p
Not til I get my Surly fixed, ok? I broke my right/rear shifter trying to pretend I was a wrench. I'm just about ready to give up on bar-ends and go back to good ol' downtubes.
Love the moostache bars, though.
(and I love my friction bar-ends, too... I just can't seem to put them back together right)
oh, okay. maybe by the time you do the weather will have warmed up a tetch
brrrrrrr, I hope so...freezing and very slick out there this morning...be careful folks!Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
happy winter solstice to all too...love to have the days grow longer now...every lil bit helps!
maybe next weekend for a short ride to end 2007 and greet 2008?
Let's move the ride talk to the NW section...although I'm inclined to do it sometime in January rather than next weekend.
I WANT "GU" to be a Scrabble word!
I think I have my Christmas Eve menu figured out
Pomegranate Champagne Punch
Roast Turkey Breast
Ham
Honeyed Sweet Potatoes
Green Beans with Caramelized Onions
Mushroom & Artichoke Dressing
Waldorf Salad with Walnut Oil Vinaigrette
Cranberry Gelatin Salad
Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie
I just need to figure out which recipe I want to use for the turkey breast.
Who are you having for Christmas Eve dinner, Snap?
Where are you having Christmas Dinner, Snap? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by salsabike
Holy cow, that's major gourmet! How many people are you cooking for? They are very lucky!Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Over here, us 7 folks will be having a small Christmas Day menu of:
broiled salmon
steamed asparagus with hollandaise sauce
baked sweet potatoes with brown sugar/butter
apple pie with vanilla ice cream
Nothing nicer than cooking and eating some good food with a few loved ones. :)
We are having steamed Penn Cove (local) clams, fresh Dungeness crab, a green salad, bread, and a couple of Marie Callendar pies. And some Dutch cookies from my grandma's recipe, and probably some caraway scones. This is the first time I've wanted to bake in quite a while.
I think there will be 10 of us - Mom, Dad, Brother & Sis-in-law, Sister, Niece, Niece's fiancé, Nephew, Nephew's girl friend, and me.
They'll all come to the house, I'm the "chef" of the family. I always accuse my mother of kidnapping me from my true father Jacques Pepin.:)
That sounds nice. I do not cook much, although I can. The second stint through graduate school, for inexplicable reasons, made me stop cooking. I think it was the "abandon all unnecessary activity" approach to graduate student life. And somehow I never restarted, even though I've been done with grad school cycle number two since, uh...1995.
I stopped for awhile too, but then realized my parents were living on frozen dinners. :eek: So, I've started fixing dinner 4-5 times a week. eatingwell.com and cookinglight.com have become regular sites for me.
being particular keeps me cooking. I can control exactly what we eat, including portion size. It's just part of what i do.
(and Raleighdon does too, which helps) Unfortunately, we're tending to eat out more which means more $$, more waste, and less really good food, even though we don't eat at fast food joints EVER
I cook good meals when SKnot and/or Trek are here, but just do beans and rice type stuff when I'm alone.
Guess I'm one of those "Eat to Live" type folks, rather than one of the "Live to Eat" kind.
Going to my mom's for Christmas eve and Christmas day.
Happy Solstice To All!
Well, it's a balmy 2c here, which is just as well as I set fire to the last of my furniture yesterday in a vain attempt to stay warm. Still no heating engineer. He's due 'between 12 and 6' this afternoon. If you see him, tell him to get a move on. To add to my troubles I discovered when I lept joyfully into the shower this morning that I have no hot water either. Imagine my delight!
On top of all this I have managed to incubate a nice cold so have a sore throat and endlessly running nose to add to my list of gratitudes.
Grump, grump, grump.:mad: :mad: :mad:
Thanks goodness for porridge - my ancestors knew what they were doing when they designed the Scottish diet. I'll be having a Scotch pie for lunch.
Okay - I'll go away and stop moaning and complaining now. Thank you for your attention.
wow, what's a Scotch pie?
Bruno, I really feel for you. I was without heat for 36 hours (no heaters either) and discovered that if i didn't stay on my feet I could NOT stay warm. You have every right to complain. I'm surprised you aren't staying in a hotel or something!
(at least your computer works) :p
I was recently without heat for 52 hours.
I had four layers top and bottom.
I entertained myself at night with crosswords by kerosene lamp and battery powered NPR.
I slept between two dogs, all of us under the covers.
Them dogs is warm.
At one point I thought the heat had come back on.