Any one else feeling like they are in the THICK of the holiday season? To give you an idea of how things are running in my kitchen… On Wednesay, I forgot to add baking soda to the Sugar Molasses Crinkle Cookies. That called for a second batch of corrected dough! That same night, I watched the Polar Express with my girls and was so sucked into the roller coaster train ride that I burned the beef stew. Well, the bottom part anyway. I just managed to finally get the carbon off the dutch oven this morning. Thursday, I stepped away from my kitchen and took on the commercial world to get last minute ingredients and pick up peppermint and almond extract (unknowingly, making that 3 bottles of each extract that I now have stored away for I don’t know what!). Friday I woke up and wanted the challenge of a new recipe. In hindsight, after this week’s track record, I really wonder at my bravery. But every day is new, and so I went for it. Continue reading
