Thursday, May 4, 2017

I started baking again today; I’m loving my new mixer. I made a lemon bundt cake (a new recipe) and I was worried when it didn’t come out of the pan easily. I managed to get it out and only lost a tiny bit off of what will be the top. If I were icing it you’d never know but since I want to be able to serve everything on napkins there will be no icing.

Next up were the cookies. I made Mum’s Chocolate Cookies. I made them once before for a Song Circle and we thought they were a little bland. Of course I didn’t remember that until after I had them mixed. The recipe called for walnuts (which we don’t like) but I had some pecans so I added them in. Hopefully the nuts will add a bit more flavour.

While I was waiting on things to bake I looked over the other recipes I wanted to make. When I did my shopping list I thought I had enough corn syrup but today I realized I was making a double batch and I wouldn’t have enough. I debated about using some agave syrup; I checked the equivalency and you would use about 1/4 as much but you’d have to add up to 1/3 of the liquid. That math was just too much so I decided to get some.

I had some packages to get into the mail so when they were wrapped I headed out. Pat wanted me to pick up a prescription at Safeway and, since it didn’t matter where I bought the syrup, I said I’d get it for him. The Post Office visit went fine and then I stopped at Canadian Tire for my clothes pins (and a package of napkins for the Hall). From there is was a quick trip to Safeway and home.

I fully intended to bake another batch of cookies this afternoon but a nap sounded like a better idea! My allergies were acting up this morning and although the pills I took say non-drowsy I’m going to blame the pills and not laziness. I was only down for about ten minutes when I realized I had forgotten to buy the corn syrup. I’ll head out to the Guild meeting a bit early tonight and pick it up on the way.

So what do ideas have to do with this post? I was wondering this morning why on earth I volunteered to do another concession at the end of the month. After the Board meetings when everyone is coming up with ideas of things we could/should do, I feel like I have nothing to contribute. I think if they come up with the ideas the least I can do is some of the work!