4 posts tagged “baking”
Pronounced clah-foo-tee.
I loved it! Too much, I'm afraid. I find that the high egg and dairy ratio in this dessert bothers my digestion. I may have to turn vegan!
The other members of my family didn't care much for the texture of it, so I most likely will retire this recipe. I'm glad I tried it, though. It was fun to make.
I would use fresh cherries next time instead of frozen, to keep the batter from turning so red from the juice. I'd eat way too much of it if I could handle the eggs and dairy, so it's a good thing that I can't eat it.
Yummy! My very first Gingerbread Man Cookies!!! Oooo...they're good. The recipe is from the Better Homes and Gardens 100 Best Cookies periodical that my mother-in-law got off a magazine rack at the grocery store. These are going to be decorated by the kids in my daughter's kindergarten class. I want to make another batch later to decorate! I would love to really make these little guys come to life with some nice icing.
My daughter and I went to visit my Grandmother a few weeks before my daughter’s fifth birthday. I was wearing a pair of black wedge-heeled sandals that I bought at the beginning of summer. Grandmother noticed them and asked me if they were new. I told her that they were ‘sort-of’ new. She said, “You and your shoes…you have a new pair of shoes on every time I see you.” I was shocked at her comment and I protested vehemently. I told her that I am hardly a frivolous person when it comes to my wardrobe, and I might buy one or two new pair of shoes a year, mainly because the ones I’ve had for years have worn through the soles or straps. In fact, ALL of my shoes, totaled, fill one drawer in my dresser! Adding, “I don’t know too many women with that conservative of a shoe stash. Do you?” Grandmother quickly recanted and we went on about our business of visiting, having a lovely time.
A few weeks passed and I thought about Grandmother’s comment every time I went to my drawer to get a pair of shoes. I just couldn’t understand why she had that opinion of me.
At my daughter’s birthday dinner, I was sitting near my husband’s Grandfather at the table. He is in his late seventies; the same age as my Grandmother. He said, “Time really does seem to move more rapidly as you get older.” This was no surprise to me, as I had heard that all of my life and have experienced it myself, especially since the birth of my daughter. It was what he said next that made more of an impact on me. He said, “A whole year will go by, but it only seems like three months to me.”
Again, I knew that time seems to speed up as we age, but I never realized just how fast time could seem to fly by for the elderly. Within just a moment, that statement made a quick connection to my Grandmother’s comments about my shoes. I suddenly understood that, while I may buy one pair of shoes every blue moon, given her own relationship with time, it may very well seem to her as though I have some sort of insatiable shoe fetish.
Since grasping how differently time is passing for all of us, I have enjoyed a better understanding of our Grandparents than ever before. It’s easier for me to understand the younger people in my life as I try harder to remember how slowly time crept by when I was younger.
I’ll try to not get so upset at my young daughter and teenage step-son in the car, for instance. In their minds, the 25 minute drive to Grandmother’s house becomes a two hour road trip. I do realize that my daughter thinks she has waited hours upon hours for me to get finished with this article. I’m sure she thinks mommy is never going to get away from the computer and bake muffins with her. I love the fact that she won’t recall how long it took for her patience to be rewarded; she’ll just be so pleased when I tell her that it’s finally time to bake together.
I decided that the Confectioner in me should be free to express herself on my craft blog because after all, I feel these things that I have made in my kitchen are just as pretty as some of my crafts! So...take a look in the RM Food Collection. My daughter's 4th birthday is coming up next month, so I should have a 'cutesy' cake coming up soon. She's reallllly into Cinderella right now, so I might do something with that.
I'd much rather make up my own design, but you know...commercialism...what can I say? At least it's 'vintage' commercialism...I mean, the characters have stood the test of time...I'll give them that much!
