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ismoWe're sitting in front of the fireplace where there's a warm fire burning, gazing at the newly-decorated tree, and listening to the first Christmas Revels album, which is the classic one in our opinion, even though we also have most of the others. It's very nice, but I'm waiting impatiently for the dough for my sweet potato rolls to rise, so I can bake them and then go to bed. Today I baked two batches of cookies and two cakes, and went to the grocery store, and visited the downtown market for bread and the Cheese Lady for a LOT of cheese: two kinds of cheddar, Bucherolle, Humboldt Fog, and an Alpkase. We're taking it with us to the Christmas celebration. There will be fifteen of us, most of whom are cheese fiends.
The cookies and one of the cakes are gluten free because the Redhead will be there. I thought it would be sad if everyone else was partaking and she didn't get to. One batch of cookies was from a GF mix, with a lot of chopped nuts added to make it more Christmassy. It came out well. The second batch was a recipe where I just substituted GF flour in a regular recipe, and it was kind of weird--smushy! So I cut it up and put the pieces in cupcake papers so they won't fall apart when people pick them up, and put them on the back porch to chill. One cake was also a GF spice cake mix, to which I added homemade applesauce and a grated apple and nuts to make it an apple spice cake. The other is a traditional pound cake. So then I thought I was all ready . . . and then I remembered that I was supposed to bring dinner rolls! Aaack. Hence the late-night dough rising.
We're going to Mother's tomorrow. Tron and the Lumberjack will follow later. They have a few things to do in town first. The weather people are still predicting either freezing rain or not freezing rain. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. We won't be leaving till mid-morning, which is a good thing because we still have to pack everything into the car and get gas. I am tired! This Christmas stuff always sneaks up on me. ALWAYS. Every year I say, "Boy oh boy, next year I'm going to be SO well organized." But I never am. Perhaps it is not meant to be that way.
The sunset today was very unremarkable--just a fading from a light grey to a darker one--but I was so excited. Every year, but especially this one, I anticipate the earth turning toward the light, and I'm ridiculously happy and grateful when it happens again, just like every year, and I'm here to see it. Blessings to all of you, and may this be a better year for us all.
The cookies and one of the cakes are gluten free because the Redhead will be there. I thought it would be sad if everyone else was partaking and she didn't get to. One batch of cookies was from a GF mix, with a lot of chopped nuts added to make it more Christmassy. It came out well. The second batch was a recipe where I just substituted GF flour in a regular recipe, and it was kind of weird--smushy! So I cut it up and put the pieces in cupcake papers so they won't fall apart when people pick them up, and put them on the back porch to chill. One cake was also a GF spice cake mix, to which I added homemade applesauce and a grated apple and nuts to make it an apple spice cake. The other is a traditional pound cake. So then I thought I was all ready . . . and then I remembered that I was supposed to bring dinner rolls! Aaack. Hence the late-night dough rising.
We're going to Mother's tomorrow. Tron and the Lumberjack will follow later. They have a few things to do in town first. The weather people are still predicting either freezing rain or not freezing rain. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. We won't be leaving till mid-morning, which is a good thing because we still have to pack everything into the car and get gas. I am tired! This Christmas stuff always sneaks up on me. ALWAYS. Every year I say, "Boy oh boy, next year I'm going to be SO well organized." But I never am. Perhaps it is not meant to be that way.
The sunset today was very unremarkable--just a fading from a light grey to a darker one--but I was so excited. Every year, but especially this one, I anticipate the earth turning toward the light, and I'm ridiculously happy and grateful when it happens again, just like every year, and I'm here to see it. Blessings to all of you, and may this be a better year for us all.
