The weekend after Thanksgiving I had my annual holiday/cookie party. I really enjoyed it so much more this year since I didn’t spend the whole time baking. Wednesday night I made the dough for the Chocolate Pepper cookies, Thursday night I did the dough for the stained glass window cookies and Friday night I made the dough and cooked the lemon spritz cookies since you’re not supposed to refrigerate the dough. So on Saturday all I had left was the final baking for the dough, and making my everything cookies.
I used up the promise buttery spread I had, which was good, but I think I’ll stick with real butter for baking in the future, I don’t think the spritz cookies turned out quite as well as they usually do. And I think next time I’m going to try making them as lime or lemon/lime.
The chocolate pepper ones turned out well, though not quite as good as I remember SP’s being last year, but super rich, so I’m not sure if I’ll make them again.
The stained glass window cookies are pretty, but too much of a pain to do again. I might try them one more time as a bar/sheet cookie with the lifesavers crushed and sprinkled on top though because they really are tasty.
The everything (but fruit) cookies were the favorite as always, this year I rolled them in the raw sugar that was left over from the chocolate pepper cookies which gave them a nice crunch. I might do them half that way from now on.
The gift exchange was fun, I got a cute penguin mug that matches my cookie jar. Everyone was good about bringing yummy or useful stuff.
Sunday we went ice skating with friends. I don’t remember the last time I did it, but it was my pirate’s first time so we were teaching him. He did really well and I had a great time. We relaxed the rest of the evening after that.
Monday night my brother came to visit, so we hung out, talked and played WiiPlay, and he got me into Sudoku on his DS. It almost makes me want one, but I know I wouldn’t have time for it.
Tuesday night I got a bunch of freelance work done, with some left to do this week or weekend.
I’ve also been going through the pilates videos the library has and found some that I liked, so tonight I have a stack to return and a few more to pick up.
I woke up with a pretty bad headache, but I did some yoga for about 15 minutes and that helped a ton. I still have a very mild ache, but it’s hardly noticeable.
Khalua is being cute and doing her jellybean/”I have no legs” impression, which I would have taken a picture of, but she moved before I could.
Anyway, it’s good to be caught up somewhat, but time to head back to work!
