I spent 4 hours in the kitchen yesterday baking 6.5 dozen pumpkin cookies and 5 pounds of sweet potatoes that I turned into a mashed sweet potato casserole. That's the best kind of recipe--it says right in it that you can make it up to a point and refrigerate it for up to 2 days, and then just heat it up in the oven for like 20mins when you're ready to serve. I'm all about getting dishes done ahead of time. Especially things that make a mess of the kitchen and tons of dishes.

So of course, I've started eating the pumpkin cookies... had to make sure each batch out of the oven was cooked to a proper doneness, duh.