*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s Christmas Day….. I hope you have a nice one….. I’ll be forcing my children to play Jenga…one loves it…one hates it….. I’ll also be forcing a jigsaw puzzle of our home on them too…it’s one of those aerial photographs from a drone….. …..it doesn’t show the house…it shows a lot of trees…and a lot of swamp…and a smidge of the barn roof….. It’s an impossible puzzle of tree tops…dotted by bogs…and sinkholes…and…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We all have our favorite recipes which are our “Go-To’s”….. …..my “Go-To” Christmas cookie recipe is (of course) my Grandmother’s “Rum Balls”….. *****Scan To The Rum Ball Recipe***** I know I’ve mentioned them before…I wish they weren’t only for yuletide….. They really should be available year-round….. …..maybe even a required breakfast staple(?)…a good eye-popper to start the day….. We are currently in a flurried-frenzy of baking….. Everything is hazy and seen through a…
I’ve just finished bottling my home-made, Kahlua-esque, coffee liqueur. Friends have given me pretty, empty bottles. Surprise! My friends are good at emptying bottles too! I’ve doctored the stove-top hooch beyond the original recipe that I was given………………………..well, of course I did. I was supposed to filter it…………………..I never do… I figure some circulating coffee grounds could count as dietary fiber and healthy/necessary roughage……………………plus I’m both lazy and impatient. My recipe “doctoring” alterations assuredly require more sugar, more…
We all survived another bonfire party….. Only those things that were intended to get burned got burned….. Phew………….That’s Always A Plus….. My older daughter had all of her friends over…It was a Christmas Cookie Decorating Extravaganza….. Young adults, lots of refined sugar and Fireball bourbon………….very entertaining to watch….. No fish-bowl-concoction this time…(That last one—–the morning after—–was really scary—–you needed a bull whip and a mace just to get near that drink)….. But this party was a good mix of…