Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Cooking on Nov 18th, 2009
Our Indian summer weather abandoned us this week for typical November gloom along with our first snow of the season. There was a dusting only and it didn’t last long, washed away by the rain and warm temperatures. A chilly prelude to the next few months.
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I’m knitting and cleaning and thinking about the holidays. As [...]
I have a husband who likes fruitcake. Now I know fruitcakes are easy targets for ridicule. They’re heavy, rich and full of booze and last forever. While that last feature is often desirable in such things as good times and batteries, not so in most fruitcakes.
But there can be exceptions. Jack has specific ideas about [...]
Thanksgiving preparations are underway which is kind of ridiculous since I’m only cooking for two. But I decided to make tomorrow easy by cooking candied sweet potatoes (for Jack) and mashed potatoes (for me) and the pumpkin pie today. We’ll skip the stuffing this year to keep things simple. Or maybe not, I really like [...]
