|
|
 |
This is my 13th entry in my 5th year of taking part in Holidailies. If
you have wandered in from Holidailies, you can scroll down to read a brief
introduction. |
|
| Nancy is not the only person baking cookies around here. Jill has been
doing some massive baking this week, partly because she often does lots
of baking and partly because she likes to give home-baked Christmas presents
to her friends. (Needless to say, her friends really like this.) |
 |
|
 |
These are oatmeal cookies and oatmeal raisin cookies, but she used both
raisins and Craisins (dried cranberries) in them. Very tasty.
|
 |
And these are chocolate covered peanut butter balls. The dark ones are
dark chocolate and the others are milk chocolate (with thin ribbons of
dark chocolate dripped across them.
|
 |
Peanut butter cookies with Hershey's Kisses in the center.
|
 |
And pumpkin bread...
|
 |
A couple of weeks ago Nancy bought supplies for Christmas baking. It seemed
as if she had obtained laughable amounts: 25 pounds of cane sugar, 4 pounds
of brown sugar, 4 pounds of confectioner's sugar, and 4 and a half pounds
(72 oz.) of Nestle's chocolate morsels. At least half of the big bag of
sugar is now gone. |
|
Merry Christmas!
A brief introduction.... (edited to
update it from 2006)
A brief introduction for anyone who wanders in here from the Holidailies
site -- I'm a middle-aged (*cough* okay,
63 67
, but I don't look a day over 62 66
) guy who lives in Rhode Island with my wife Nancy (a middle-school math teacher), daughter Gillian
("Jill" -- 24 28
yr old college student and baker), son Jeremy (21
25
yr old college student restaurant
manager),
and Tiger (senior citizen cat). Eldest child Adam lives in New York
City with his wife Leah and our grandson
s Sam
and Milo
. I'm a former programmer/systems analyst who got into doing software training
and currently works from home doing quality assurance and editing on course
material for both classroom courses and Web-based training courses. I've
been writing this online journal since 1996.
|
