wrapping up the long weekend
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susandennis* Baking thoughts. I baked some more of these banana chocolate chip cookies. I can kind of taste a hint of banana now. It does not seem to matter how long I bake them, they have cake like middles. Crispy edges but cake middles. I want crispy cookies!
Since preheat time is minimal with my Ninja oven, I can go from 0 to fresh baked still a little warm home made cookies in 15 mins with cookie dough in the fridge. This is pretty excellent.
I've procured the ingredients for cut out ginger cookies. Not snaps. Not gingerbread. Rolled out ginger cookies. I have a recipe. I hope it's as good as I have in my imagination.
I've also been rethinking cake shapes. I'm not in love with two 6" layers. At least not the ones I've made so far. Too tall. The slicing situation is dicey and the icing to cake ratio suffers. I'm thinking next, I'm going to try one 8/9 square bake, then cut it in half and stack for a two layer loaf cake. Maybe. Oh and it will probably be a spice cake with a light whipped cream cheese frosting.
* I expected that our game against Houston tonight would be rough. They are shredding us. In the 7th - 11-2. And TheIdiotICan'tStand is in the TV booth being an idiot. I had the radio on for a while with the TV on mute. But even that is too hard to listen to so now we're just total mute. And to add insult to injury, Wednesday's game is on You Tube only, MLB sucks.
* I have a vaccinated grad student/handyman coming over tomorrow afternoon to do a few little things. He was looking for odd jobs and I had odd jobs. One is my kitchen cabinets. They have this funky hinge that needs tweaking but when I try, I just make it worse. All the doors are crooked. It's been bugging me for several years. He says he can fix it. I sure hope so.
* On the up side, when we, once again, fail to make the playoffs, our final game will be October 3 and I can cancel my $80 a month cable tv surcharge!
Since preheat time is minimal with my Ninja oven, I can go from 0 to fresh baked still a little warm home made cookies in 15 mins with cookie dough in the fridge. This is pretty excellent.
I've procured the ingredients for cut out ginger cookies. Not snaps. Not gingerbread. Rolled out ginger cookies. I have a recipe. I hope it's as good as I have in my imagination.
I've also been rethinking cake shapes. I'm not in love with two 6" layers. At least not the ones I've made so far. Too tall. The slicing situation is dicey and the icing to cake ratio suffers. I'm thinking next, I'm going to try one 8/9 square bake, then cut it in half and stack for a two layer loaf cake. Maybe. Oh and it will probably be a spice cake with a light whipped cream cheese frosting.
* I expected that our game against Houston tonight would be rough. They are shredding us. In the 7th - 11-2. And TheIdiotICan'tStand is in the TV booth being an idiot. I had the radio on for a while with the TV on mute. But even that is too hard to listen to so now we're just total mute. And to add insult to injury, Wednesday's game is on You Tube only, MLB sucks.
* I have a vaccinated grad student/handyman coming over tomorrow afternoon to do a few little things. He was looking for odd jobs and I had odd jobs. One is my kitchen cabinets. They have this funky hinge that needs tweaking but when I try, I just make it worse. All the doors are crooked. It's been bugging me for several years. He says he can fix it. I sure hope so.
* On the up side, when we, once again, fail to make the playoffs, our final game will be October 3 and I can cancel my $80 a month cable tv surcharge!
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