Monday, December 05, 2005
Better Late...
Well, today was Christmas Cookie Day. I had one floating holiday left at work and had to take it before the end of the year...so it was a good day for cookies. However, it was a bad day for Donna's judgement about what to bake on Christmas Cookie Day....
I got myself a cookbook where the recipes limit refined ingredients and include NO sugar. Sweetened with fruit juice and such. Am I nuts? YOU BETCHA!! The majority of these puppies suck. Why do I try crap like this? The applesauce current cookies taste like week old sawdust and I don't know why I even bothered to bake the whole batch. The almond shortbread was worse, if that's possible. That one is in the trash. Didn't bake the second batch of those.
On the bright side, the chocolate-chip pecan cookies aren't bad. And the linzer cookies and almond gems are almost yummy. I still have to dunk the barley cookies in chocolate (they're pretty tastless and dry now) but the truffle cream filled stars are decent. The mini-fruitcakes may even pass muster.
Of course, none of these cookies are as good as the full-sugar/white flour/artificial gunk cookies I usually make. I'm gonna try the macaroons with turbano sugar and may make a couple of batches of my usuals, but mix in some whole-wheat flour and turbano sugar. Not super-healthy, but not as bad as they usually are.
I'm beat...so I will put off the rant I've been planning. Stay tuned, there's a group out there ruining the Holidays for me and I'll letcha know ALL about it.
For those of you who care...I am hoping to start on the X-mas site and send out my annual postcards as well. Gotta get some film developed first. Later 'gators!!
I got myself a cookbook where the recipes limit refined ingredients and include NO sugar. Sweetened with fruit juice and such. Am I nuts? YOU BETCHA!! The majority of these puppies suck. Why do I try crap like this? The applesauce current cookies taste like week old sawdust and I don't know why I even bothered to bake the whole batch. The almond shortbread was worse, if that's possible. That one is in the trash. Didn't bake the second batch of those.
On the bright side, the chocolate-chip pecan cookies aren't bad. And the linzer cookies and almond gems are almost yummy. I still have to dunk the barley cookies in chocolate (they're pretty tastless and dry now) but the truffle cream filled stars are decent. The mini-fruitcakes may even pass muster.
Of course, none of these cookies are as good as the full-sugar/white flour/artificial gunk cookies I usually make. I'm gonna try the macaroons with turbano sugar and may make a couple of batches of my usuals, but mix in some whole-wheat flour and turbano sugar. Not super-healthy, but not as bad as they usually are.
I'm beat...so I will put off the rant I've been planning. Stay tuned, there's a group out there ruining the Holidays for me and I'll letcha know ALL about it.
For those of you who care...I am hoping to start on the X-mas site and send out my annual postcards as well. Gotta get some film developed first. Later 'gators!!
# posted by Modern Spinster @ 10:50 PM 
