Let the Baking Begin!

How could I have let this slip by me? Did you know that last Friday was national cookie day? I love, love, love a good cookie. Not too crisp…well unless it’s a biscotti made for dunking… a little chewy and loaded with stuff, good stuff!

The English word “cookie” is derived from the Dutch work “koekje” meaning little cake. Dutch bakers used to test oven temperatures on small amounts of batter, so that they wouldn’t waste it all if the temperature was not just right. Soon they learned that these little morsels were pretty delicious!

Hopefully these ingredients and some inspiration…

 

will turn into this!

This is absolutely hands down, one of the highlights of being with my sister at Christmas…is all the baking that we do! Are you getting the recipes in order my sister dear? With Christmas falling in the middle of the week, you should get some extra baking time in! I am very disappointed to say that I won’t be there in time for our baking adventures since I arrive early Christmas Eve morning. So instead it will be the time to ready for the feast of the 7 fishes.

AlleyCat has been very mischevious lately! I keep telling her that Santa Kitty will not be leaving her anything in her stocking…but I don’t think that she believes me!

We are expecting a big rainstorm, so I will be staying in and stitching all day, wrapping gifts and finishing my Christmas cards. Ho! Ho! Ho!

and until next time…keep on stitching

 

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About Vicky

Needlepoint, morning noon and evening! what could be better than this? I work on the computer in the daylight hours editing stitch guides and drawing stitches that you will see in the next Needlepoint Now for your stitching pleasure! In between this, there is time for taking pictures of my stitching adventures, Facebook and writing stitch guides for canvas that I am stitching for Needle Deeva, Maggie, Ruth Schmuff and others. Mostly needlepoint you ask? well we will talk about my cats Sylvester and AlleyCat, better known as "the brat". Of course I can't forget Felix who was the love of my life for over 14 years. He broke my heart as he departed for the Rainbow Bridge last year. Oh did I mention baseball?

2 thoughts on “Let the Baking Begin!

  1. Ummmm, cookies! We have several flats of persimmons from a friend who grows the trees on his Napa property. We’ve been baking a LOT of persimmon loaves! Maybe we’ll switch to persimmon cookies? My No Cal town has been spared most of the awfulness of the storm, but other cities have reported imminent flooding. Stay warm and dry!

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