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5 hours ago, prairiewindmomma said:
I grew up with cookie trays, but we usually just do dessert at the holidays with the holiday meal. I like to make mini flourless chocolate tortes with a chocolate-orange ganache and candied orange peel topping, or lemon curd tartlets, or white chocolate/cranberry/cheesecake/shortbread bars. Dh eats a strict diet, so he’ll have a handful of macadamia nuts instead.
Yum!
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On 11/26/2023 at 6:42 PM, Amoret said:
Too many -- the kids keep adding more and won't let any go.
- Biscotti
- Cranberry orange shortbread
Haven't made these in a few years. I was really into the chocolate and orange flavors one year!
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43 minutes ago, Hyacinth said:
My husband gave me a beautiful bound notebook several years ago: Heavy pages, college ruled lines, a really pretty floral cover, and one of those leather ties that says this is a special journal. So of course I put it on a shelf so as not to desecrate it with my scribbles. 🙄😁 In the spirit of “use the good china and burn the pretty candles” I’d like to use the beautiful journal and I love the idea of a commonplace book.
I’m thinking it would primarily be quotes. Beautifully constructed sentences from fiction, thought-provoking lines from non-fiction, song lyrics, nuggets of wisdom, etc. Words that I find meaningful for one reason or another.
I have several notebooks for daily/weekly to-do lists, TBR lists, random brain dumps. I’m thinking the commonplace book would be more….intentional.
Should I section out the pages? Song lyrics on these pages, quotes from favorite authors on these pages, etc. I like the idea of some kind of organization. On the other hand, there is something to be said for just copying whatever strikes me whenever it strikes me on the next blank line. I think I just talked myself into the latter so as to quit overthinking this, but I'd still still like to hear about your practices.
You could date your entries. Sometimes they may be tied to things happening around you?
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33 minutes ago, Faith-manor said:
This year I am trying Vaniljekranse and Honninghjerter. Not sure if they will turn into favorites, but I am going to give it a whirkl.
May have to look for those last two to see what they are!
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Anyone getting their baking list together or starting to bake? I remember my mom starting right after Thanksgiving and having a month of sweet cookies at our disposal. 🙂
Gonna start today with Gram's almond icebox cookies and ginger molasses cookies. Others on the list:
pecan crescents
spritz cookies (maybe lemon flavoring this year?)
monster cookies
Basler Brunsli for the GF crowd
coconut chocolate chip bars (works for GF dil)
Special K bars
sugar cookies
Oreo truffles?
Danish pastry
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I;ve just started the need to write things down the last couple years, but I've let them go for periods of time. Trying to find details and compile them again now.
Menu- here and there I keep a log on my pc
Bought a beautiful datebook last year that I thought would keep me, but it got misplaced during the summer and stuff moving around.
Bought a pretty notebook that I thought I could write in at least monthly, but that got misplaced in the shuffling of stuff from my folks house here, too. Actually started it a couple years back.
Started it with a list of some goals and a breakdown of ways to get them accomplished. Made a list of kitchen goals/ plans, work goals/plans, creativity and life plans and thoughts, then a few quotes.
Picked up last year. Place to reflect on the prior month. What happened. Garden items- where I ordered what seeds, drawings of plans, etc. Books read, YouTube channels I watched. Most important: online classes I bought so I can go back to them! Also a few recipes to remember to try or that we loved, like Christmas Punch, which I plan to made a tradition.
When I lost my folks, skipped to a different notebook to write to my mom for a while, and the first notebook went by the wayside again.
Now I'm assembling all the notebooks again so I will know where they are and use them.
I did order a new planner that should hold lots of notes, plans and ideas, but will keep writing in the first one each month again, too.
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3 minutes ago, Carrie12345 said:
I’m a fan of Dawn + vinegar. But the only way to limit the required elbow grease is with an electric spin brush. Even with that, I can still get sweaty doing the kids’ shower/tub if I go too long between cleanings.
This, and let it set for several hours before you go to clean it off. Works very well!
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On 11/15/2023 at 4:11 PM, PinkTulip said:
I’m doing Thanksgiving this Sunday with my kiddos because they’ll be with their dad on the actual day. There will just be 6 of us, so it’s hard to make a ton of food when several of them are picky eaters. I’ll make: roast Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, stuffing, cranberry sauce, homemade rolls, and then Costco pumpkin and apple pies with vanilla ice cream.
There will be a ton of leftovers, but we’ll eat it for the rest of the week.My kind of plan! Thanksgiving Day it will be dd and maybe her fiance with us, but I'm thinking ds and his family may come sometime on the weekend. Who knows, maybe the shop will be closed Friday, too! So
turkey breast
mashed potatoes and gravy
dressing
green bean casserole
a baked sweet potato for me'
jellied cranberry sauce for dh, and gf df cranberry fluff for the rest of us. It was a big hit last year.
homemade rolls- found a new recipe with honey in it
Dh likes apple pie, and I'd like a coconut cream pie, I think.
Dd cooked the pumpkins she'd bought, and I pureed the best I could. And then I read that real pumpkins are lousy for baking, to use squash like the canned pumpkin is. Debating on trying some for cinnamon chip pumpkin scones. Might ruin the chips. lol
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He doesn't drink coffee. But he'll check in at work to see if I haven't had a chance to pick up a latte, and if I haven't he'll get one. Some days I come out of the shower to find he's gone and picked me up a latte. And on Sundays after church he drives right to the coffee shop. Good man!!
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I feel for you. I was without a kitchen for 8 months. I got very good making dinner in an electric fry pan, and did dishes in the laundry sink downstairs. Was very downhearted when dh hooked up the gas stove in the basement. Yes. Dark 'kitchen' for a few months. But very happy with the kitchen.
It will be worth it!!
We just redid the main bathroom. 4 months. And the contractor asked if we were going to be redoing our wood kitchen flooring. Umm NOT HAPPENING!! lol
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On 9/26/2023 at 5:46 PM, Miss Tick said:
Ooo, we make that too! And I've had the same thought that I would never dare introduce it to anyone actually from Japan. I am able to get Okonomi Sauce, but other than that....
Let me know if you have a cheater's version of Takoyaki!
A Japanese student made the pancakes for us years ago. I loved them! Will need to look for the mayo. Think ours had some shrimp and cabbage and were topped with a couple strips of pork just before flipping.
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I really wish my dh would take our disposal out. I don't use it.
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In the pickle jar? More likely, the garbage disposal.
I was down to one original knife and 4 tablespoons. Time for a new set, especially since the kids are gone.
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Dd remembers her dad taking her to the American Girl store. 🙂
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On 9/22/2023 at 5:08 PM, prairiewindmomma said:
You can try the baking soda in a shoe box trick. Find a plastic shoebox, put a bunch of baking soda on the bottom of it. Place a tea tin covered in acid free paper or something in the center of it, on which your book can rest and not touch the baking soda. Shut the lid. Wait a few weeks.
Mildew is a hard smell to get rid of though. I never could banish it from a few truly antique books. They are now stored in an archival box deep in a closet.
You might also try putting them in a box or bag with some chunks of charcoal. Worked for my vehicle and a bunch of fabric that had been stored in my mom's basement.
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Goodnight Gorilla was one of my kids and grandkids favorites. And the boys all love the giant Busy Town books, especially Cars and Trucks and Things that go. 3 year old dgs can't get enough of the Mercer Meyer's Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel, which have flaps to open, too.
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We once had Wendy's for Thanksgicing dinner when we were traveling. And yes, Chinese restaurants are usually open.
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I switched to M with a free plan to cover part D requirements. Dh has a few months to go, but not sure what he'll have on the side. He goes to the dr regularly. I don't. We spent far too much for insurance for me these years I didn't use it. We are self-employed and dh is SO ready to retire!
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What are the positives might be the better question. Sounds like a lot of storage issues that ARE deal breakers!
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Dh and I made lots of good friends when one couple led marriage classes of 6-8 weeks long each year. We ended up with 8-10 couples when we met, and we go out to dinner or play cards with several of the couples here or there. They led different classes 3 or 4 years, so we got to know each other well. It was a good way for us to have friends in common!
Figuring out what life without caretaking the last several years is new here, too. A whole new adventure to plan!
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Is it possible to have a tub that could fit over a short shower/shower walls, used with the handheld? Then you could use the space for both? Could be a unique design. I'm just dreaming it up.
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I am so sorry! Hugs for all the times you want to talk to her, or the times that you break out in tears randomly.
Just lost my mom and dad after caring for them all summer. They just made 67 yrs. together. It is tough! Glad you could all be there for her, as we were. No regrets!
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On 9/25/2022 at 5:40 AM, MEmama said:
Why not ask your kids? Everything changes, and old photos are always fascinating. Even what you might consider boring scenery changes—what an area looked like in Season X in whatever state will look vastly different in the years to come. I wonder sometimes about all my garden and landscape photos, but then I think back to how much things have changed in just the past few decades ...
The quality of the photos is only testament to how much has changed and is a story unto itself. ... though it was disappointing at the time when the film was developed, it makes for a story that could have only happened during a certain era.My parents just passed, and as we were doing the obits, I had all the paperwork for them. I discovered that the town we knew they were from wasn't actually set up when they married, but was actually part of the next town over at that time! Very interesting to this history lover!
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What are your favorite holiday cookies to make?
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Those Basler Brunsli would work for gf family!