When the Weather Turns Cold....
Nov. 12th, 2018 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse ...I turn to baking.
Shawn really likes to have a LOT of cookies around for the holidays. Not only are they nice to trot out for our usual Thanksgiving guests, but also they are a Sustaining sort of Smackerel to get us Minnesotans through the dark months. This weekend, we made: Snickerdoodles and Pizelles (Saturday). Nutmeg teacakes, the dough for date cookies, and "failed" pecan tassies were made on Sunday.
Kowalski's had a whole cut-up chicken on sale, so I made a big roast with mash potatoes, gravy, and green beans. I also made my first French bread loaf of the season.
The recipe I use technically makes four, more traditionally skinny baguettes, but I like my bread to be like me: fat and stout. So, I have always only made two loaves from the recipe, that's why they are not especially baguette-looking.
They sure are tasty, though.
And, ah... but the eating was gooooooood
Shawn really likes to have a LOT of cookies around for the holidays. Not only are they nice to trot out for our usual Thanksgiving guests, but also they are a Sustaining sort of Smackerel to get us Minnesotans through the dark months. This weekend, we made: Snickerdoodles and Pizelles (Saturday). Nutmeg teacakes, the dough for date cookies, and "failed" pecan tassies were made on Sunday.
Kowalski's had a whole cut-up chicken on sale, so I made a big roast with mash potatoes, gravy, and green beans. I also made my first French bread loaf of the season.
The recipe I use technically makes four, more traditionally skinny baguettes, but I like my bread to be like me: fat and stout. So, I have always only made two loaves from the recipe, that's why they are not especially baguette-looking.
They sure are tasty, though.
And, ah... but the eating was gooooooood