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Today, I made cookies.
Why?
My mom's church called me and asked if I could make something for the bake-table at their
bazaar.
So I have made pecan-spice cookies.
They are gluten-free and high in protein! :-D
Because they are made with ground pecans and egg-whites.
And sugar.
And little tiny bits of skor toffee.
And they are yummy, and slightly chewy. And very spicy (by my wussy standards, at least) because they also contain cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and a teeny little dash of cardemom.
:-D
If I do say so myself, I made pretty decent cookies. Even if it takes two sheets of them before I figure out how to not burn the damn things. ;-)
Even still, I have... A lot of cookies. I did a double-batch of them which, not counting the burnt ones, and the slightly burnt ones (final batch), still gives me about thirty 2"-diameter drop-cookies. :-)
Which should be plenty for the ladies at the church. :-)
It also means that I have eight shiny egg yolks sitting in my fridge, just *waiting* to be turned into creme brulle. :-D (It will have squash in it, I think, and little bits of skor-toffee mixed in. :-) Mmmm... Custard... :-)
Which reminds me. I need to get the squash out to thaw. :-)
And that will be my adventure tomorrow. :-)
In other news, I've been feeling rather melancholy lately. Like... I get up and I write (or try to, anyway ;-) and check my e-mail, and check live-journal, and then I just want to go to bed again. (Good thing I've got work to go to, or else I probably would. ;-)
I don't know whether it's hormones or the October Blahs, or (more likely) the consistent *lack* of any phone-calls from any of the agencies I've applied to, or what, but... urg. I'm feeling kinda miserable and... stagnant-nervous-uncertain, and I really hate that feeling.
You have no idea.
(Or, maybe, you do. Perhaps you've heard me railing away about this before).
Anyway, I feel slightly better for having accomplished something</i. tonight, even if it was just making cookies. (I think that's why I so often got the urge to bake during exam/essay season. I needed some sort of instant-gratification accomplishment to help get me through the mess of work. And, y'know, to procrastinate with. ;-) Anyway. I think that's about it. Friday the Thirteenth tomorrow. :-) (I wonder what I could get away with at work? :-) I think that's about it for me tonight. I'm going to try to finish off some smutty-fluffy fan-fiction, and then... to bed with me. I'll bag and label the cookies tomorrow morning. :-) - TTFN, - Amazon. :-)
Why?
My mom's church called me and asked if I could make something for the bake-table at their
bazaar.
So I have made pecan-spice cookies.
They are gluten-free and high in protein! :-D
Because they are made with ground pecans and egg-whites.
And sugar.
And little tiny bits of skor toffee.
And they are yummy, and slightly chewy. And very spicy (by my wussy standards, at least) because they also contain cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and a teeny little dash of cardemom.
:-D
If I do say so myself, I made pretty decent cookies. Even if it takes two sheets of them before I figure out how to not burn the damn things. ;-)
Even still, I have... A lot of cookies. I did a double-batch of them which, not counting the burnt ones, and the slightly burnt ones (final batch), still gives me about thirty 2"-diameter drop-cookies. :-)
Which should be plenty for the ladies at the church. :-)
It also means that I have eight shiny egg yolks sitting in my fridge, just *waiting* to be turned into creme brulle. :-D (It will have squash in it, I think, and little bits of skor-toffee mixed in. :-) Mmmm... Custard... :-)
Which reminds me. I need to get the squash out to thaw. :-)
And that will be my adventure tomorrow. :-)
In other news, I've been feeling rather melancholy lately. Like... I get up and I write (or try to, anyway ;-) and check my e-mail, and check live-journal, and then I just want to go to bed again. (Good thing I've got work to go to, or else I probably would. ;-)
I don't know whether it's hormones or the October Blahs, or (more likely) the consistent *lack* of any phone-calls from any of the agencies I've applied to, or what, but... urg. I'm feeling kinda miserable and... stagnant-nervous-uncertain, and I really hate that feeling.
You have no idea.
(Or, maybe, you do. Perhaps you've heard me railing away about this before).
Anyway, I feel slightly better for having accomplished something</i. tonight, even if it was just making cookies. (I think that's why I so often got the urge to bake during exam/essay season. I needed some sort of instant-gratification accomplishment to help get me through the mess of work. And, y'know, to procrastinate with. ;-) Anyway. I think that's about it. Friday the Thirteenth tomorrow. :-) (I wonder what I could get away with at work? :-) I think that's about it for me tonight. I'm going to try to finish off some smutty-fluffy fan-fiction, and then... to bed with me. I'll bag and label the cookies tomorrow morning. :-) - TTFN, - Amazon. :-)
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