So far, so good
As you all know, I love to bake, and when I only had a few people working for me, it seemed like a great idea to give them Christmas cookies as a gift. I made some to serve after Christmas dinner, and the rest I gave away. Over the years, the department has grown, and the cookie making was getting completely out of control.
This year, I was noodling over how to avoid spending days and days baking and wrapping without disappointing everyone (they start talking about their cookie bags in November), and I happened to glance at some mason jars left over from some project or another. I decided that filling them with delicious hot fudge sauce from Perfect Scoop (David Lebovitz) and baking a batch of everyone's favorite cookies (fudge ribbon bars) would be the perfect compromise. So I did. I put a jar of sauce and a small bag of cookies on everyone's desk this morning, and everyone seems happy. Whew.
Thanks to S, our Christmas dinner will also be less stressful. She no longer eats meat, so roast and popovers are out. kristenlou came up with the brilliant idea of making seafood casserole, which I've had twice at her house and is fantastic. It's not even fattening, being from Cooking Light, so it's pretty much perfect. Don't worry, it doesn't taste light.
Only 1.5 days of work left this week, and then we're off until after New Year's, a break I'm really looking forward to. Now, we just need to get D cheered up. He made a supreme effort to get into the holiday spirit this year, but now we are having some problems with heating and other stuff at our rental project, and he's not coping too well.
This year, I was noodling over how to avoid spending days and days baking and wrapping without disappointing everyone (they start talking about their cookie bags in November), and I happened to glance at some mason jars left over from some project or another. I decided that filling them with delicious hot fudge sauce from Perfect Scoop (David Lebovitz) and baking a batch of everyone's favorite cookies (fudge ribbon bars) would be the perfect compromise. So I did. I put a jar of sauce and a small bag of cookies on everyone's desk this morning, and everyone seems happy. Whew.
Thanks to S, our Christmas dinner will also be less stressful. She no longer eats meat, so roast and popovers are out. kristenlou came up with the brilliant idea of making seafood casserole, which I've had twice at her house and is fantastic. It's not even fattening, being from Cooking Light, so it's pretty much perfect. Don't worry, it doesn't taste light.
Only 1.5 days of work left this week, and then we're off until after New Year's, a break I'm really looking forward to. Now, we just need to get D cheered up. He made a supreme effort to get into the holiday spirit this year, but now we are having some problems with heating and other stuff at our rental project, and he's not coping too well.