Alright, it's 5:15 on Christmas Eve. We were awakened this morning by the sound of the hand mixer in the kitchen. More cooking already? Yeah. By the time we got dressed and joined the kitchen crowd, there was a pecan pie and the peanut butter pie, done. So MIL made oatmeal raisin cookies, and then the girls all went shopping. To Wal-Mart. On ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted! I've just spent some 6 hours baking in my in-law's kitchen.

What have I been making? Yikes.

-Crustless pumpkin pie (basically the pumpkin pie filling without that pesky crust)
-Chocolate bundt cake
-Cream cheese mints (thank you elmindreda for the recipe ( Read more... )

What a long boring day ( Read more... )

Sunday night already? Where the hell did the weekend go ( Read more... )

So this is the cake I made that I can't figure out how many points per serving ( Read more... )

What a nice and quiet weekend at home. I was supposed to get up and go to this town yard sale on Saturday morning, but with the rain and the wind, and the need to get up at 6AM to go, my warm comfy bed took precedence. Stayed there. It was good. Hell, I didn't get dressed all day! That doesn't happen often. Did some cleaning here and there, ( Read more... )

18 ounces of white baking chocolate (chips or chunks ( Read more... )

Geez, how did four days disappear already? So, Saturday was a fun day. I met up with a coworker and we went to an auction in Boston. She'd never been to any kind of an auction before, so this was completely new territory. Well, she enjoyed herself immensely, and has vowed to go to the next scheduled auction, in March. HAhahaha!! She is a ( Read more... )

Whew! I'm glad it's finally Sunday. I got up on Saturday and set to work on my THIRD batch of chocolate cupcakes, and I pretty much sat next to the oven, peeking in every couple of minutes, to make sure they didn't burn. And they didn't! Apparently I can't cook under pressure. I still don't understand why they were burning so bad. I've got a ( Read more... )

Wow! I should go shopping late at night EVERY night that I have errands to run! Add rain to it, and damn, it's great. We headed out to Watertown Mall to the Home Depot, got there at 8:45 (I mean seriously, five minutes from Memorial Drive to Watertown Mall?!?!?) amazing! Did some browsing, found the items we were looking for, got a gift card, ( Read more... )