What are you doing?

[taxlady]

We got hit with a significant snow fall. Cleaned the vehicles, now off to the house to snowblow the laneway, and clean up the snow. Then back home to make a bunch of Turkey pot pies......

We had a winter storm watch for that snow, but we got rain instead!

 

[Alix]

Listening to the Roomba do its thing...waiting to leave for my sushi date!

 

[Timothy]

Listening to the Roomba do its thing...waiting to leave for my sushi date!

Tell me how your sushi date went! I pigged on sushi last night.

Spicy scallop gunkenzushi is my absolute favorite piece!

 

[babetoo]

just picking up the house. researching things i want to do to the house, couch cover, kitchen curtains etc. combining two christmas gift cards and adding a bit of my own. i will have enough to buy a new sewing machine. then i can go more projects, more easily.

 

[JoAnn L.]

Grandson Josh and I are getting ready to play "pick up sticks". He had never heard of the game before, I told him my brother and I use to play it a lot when we were kids.

 

[DaveSoMD]

Having my coffee. The tree is lit and there are two dogs snuggled up beside me.

 

[Addie]

just picking up the house. researching things i want to do to the house, couch cover, kitchen curtains etc. combining two christmas gift cards and adding a bit of my own. i will have enough to buy a new sewing machine. then i can go more projects, more easily.

I gave my sewing machine to Son #1. He can get better use out of it than me. He likes to sew, I don't. And the family can now go to him to do their mending.

 

[Nick Edwards]

Where's the snow?

4000' in the Sierras &no snow yet, yummiest left over ham for my sandwich to day.

 

[Zhizara]

I'm roasting some pearl onions and big garlic cloves. I'm thinking half for creamed spinach and half for the soup I started with the peels and layers of the onions and 3 drumsticks.

 

[babetoo]

spinning my heels today. lots of phone call were made, business ones, so necessary. now, a shower after i do a bit on the bike.

 

[Zhizara]

I just peeled the onions and garlic again. I didn't hear the timer go off, so they got scorched.

Fortunately, they were almost all easy to get out, There was so much of the skins I had taken off, that I'm going to mix them with the drippings and see if it would be good for stock or gravy.

I think I'll just put this dish on hold for tonight and continue tomorrow. A night in the fridge will give those flavors depth.

The house smells wonderful! All that garlic and roasting onions.

 

[Katie H]

My sweetheart gave me a 9-speed Kitchenaid hand mixer for Christmas and I've been having a ball "playing" with it.

Had several egg yolks left that I wanted to use up so I (used my new mixer) made some fattigmand bakkels, which turned out soooooo yummy. I had a new fattigmand cutter that I got just before Thanksgiving and I've been chompin' at the bit wanting to try it. Awesome. Made the job of cutting the cookies so much easier. I had 3 dozen cut, looped and fried in no time flat.

Now I really, really think I need to make some rosettes. Haven't made them in years and the deep fryer is all torqued and ready to roll. And I hear my rosette irons calling me. Hmmm.......

It's not as if I haven't already made a bunch of cookies. Almost 20 different kinds for Christmas dinner, but you never know when a plague of cookie-eating locusts might descend.

 

[Andy M.]

I just handwashing a bunch of dishes (I had let the pile up a bit). SO got off early so we're off to look at and buy a DW this afternoon.

 

[chopper]

My sweetheart gave me a 9-speed Kitchenaid hand mixer for Christmas and I've been having a ball "playing" with it.

Had several egg yolks left that I wanted to use up so I (used my new mixer) made some fattigmand bakkels, which turned out soooooo yummy. I had a new fattigmand cutter that I got just before Thanksgiving and I've been chompin' at the bit wanting to try it. Awesome. Made the job of cutting the cookies so much easier. I had 3 dozen cut, looped and fried in no time flat.

Now I really, really think I need to make some rosettes. Haven't made them in years and the deep fryer is all torqued and ready to roll. And I hear my rosette irons calling me. Hmmm.......

It's not as if I haven't already made a bunch of cookies. Almost 20 different kinds for Christmas dinner, but you never know when a plague of cookie-eating locusts might descend.

Your post made me smile. Years ago when I received my Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas I baked all sorts of cookies too! Then when I received the pasta attachment I made every kind of pasta I could think of. And then there is the ice cream attachment! Life is good!

 

[Katie H]

Your post made me smile. Years ago when I received my Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas I baked all sorts of cookies too! Then when I received the pasta attachment I made every kind of pasta I could think of. And then there is the ice cream attachment! Life is good!

You're right. My old KitchenAid hand mixer was a 5-speed that was gifted to me in about 1979. It's still going strong, but I've discovered that there are quite a few times when I need some extra power so.....

I love getting and playing with new toys and it's especially fun now that I'm retired. I can play as long as I want any time I want. You bet, life is good!!!!

 

[Addie]

My sweetheart gave me a 9-speed Kitchenaid hand mixer for Christmas and I've been having a ball "playing" with it.

Had several egg yolks left that I wanted to use up so I (used my new mixer) made some fattigmand bakkels, which turned out soooooo yummy. I had a new fattigmand cutter that I got just before Thanksgiving and I've been chompin' at the bit wanting to try it. Awesome. Made the job of cutting the cookies so much easier. I had 3 dozen cut, looped and fried in no time flat.

Now I really, really think I need to make some rosettes. Haven't made them in years and the deep fryer is all torqued and ready to roll. And I hear my rosette irons calling me. Hmmm.......

It's not as if I haven't already made a bunch of cookies. Almost 20 different kinds for Christmas dinner, but you never know when a plague of cookie-eating locusts might descend.

I just heard on the news that a large cloud of cookie-eating monsters were right behind Santa and his reindeer. You better get busy!

 

[Katie H]

I just heard on the news that a large cloud of cookie-eating monsters were right behind Santa and his reindeer. You better get busy!

I'm right on it. The rosette irons are about to be fired up!!

 

[justplainbill]

Cooking a goose based cassoulet and regretting that I do not have any Chanterelles to saute for a side dish.

 

[babetoo]

today i attended "babetoo's spa" silly joke huh? just means did more grooming things than i usually take the time to do. won't list all the actual procedures, aren't you glad? the up side, it always makes me feel better, even if i am a bit slippery from all the lotion. dinner next and that's it.

 

[Addie]

today i attended "babetoo's spa" silly joke huh? just means did more grooming things than i usually take the time to do. won't list all the actual procedures, aren't you glad? the up side, it always makes me feel better, even if i am a bit slippery from all the lotion. dinner next and that's it.

We all need self-pampering sometimes.