The post Christmas blues are beginning to effect the folks around me.
I'm working hard to avoid anything that even looks like it might be blue. I have too much to do to get bogged down with bad feelings about anything. The blues will have to catch up with me some time in March or April when I have time to relax and enjoy em'.
It's cold and clear here, a lazy morning so far. The kind of snuggle in and spend time under the covers day dreaming, because you know the floors are cold, and your bladder is going to force you up and out soon enough. And it did. I allowed myself one go back... but it's not ever the same, is it? Going back to warm covers, but knowing ya gotta get up again soon because there is that to do list, and laundry that isn't going to do it's self.
It's going to get busy around here soon enough, this early-ish time of day may be the only alone time I get for the next few days. My choice but still....
I am going to beg for the grand baby and perhaps the great grand baby too, if he is back in town, to come spend the weekend with me. Baby grand is a sure thing, GG baby depends on if that woman brought him back. But the kids play so good together and are so much fun, More fun than work, I can't think of a better way to spend the beginning of The New Year in the new house.
So just in case, I have cookies to bake. I promised to make more Mexican Wedding Cakes for everyone anyway, and I have the stuff so I might as well use it and make everybody happy.
These cookies are all my son ever asks for as a Christmas gift. The recipe is simple and easy, but time consuming. Worth every second if you take the time to beat enough air into the mix.
So here is a family treat for my friends and foes alike, enjoy!
Mexican wedding cakes
This can be only doubled once. Can’t be tripled, or quadrupled
1 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup powdered sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup fine chopped pecans
The trick to making these cookies melt in your mouth is to whip the butter until it looks like whipped cream and then add the dry ingredients a spoonful at a time whipping the whole time.
Pinch off small pieces of dough roll into balls the size of small walnuts.
Bake at 400 degrees about twelve minutes.
Roll in powered sugar while still warm.
These cookies frost themselves.
I'm working hard to avoid anything that even looks like it might be blue. I have too much to do to get bogged down with bad feelings about anything. The blues will have to catch up with me some time in March or April when I have time to relax and enjoy em'.
It's cold and clear here, a lazy morning so far. The kind of snuggle in and spend time under the covers day dreaming, because you know the floors are cold, and your bladder is going to force you up and out soon enough. And it did. I allowed myself one go back... but it's not ever the same, is it? Going back to warm covers, but knowing ya gotta get up again soon because there is that to do list, and laundry that isn't going to do it's self.
It's going to get busy around here soon enough, this early-ish time of day may be the only alone time I get for the next few days. My choice but still....
I am going to beg for the grand baby and perhaps the great grand baby too, if he is back in town, to come spend the weekend with me. Baby grand is a sure thing, GG baby depends on if that woman brought him back. But the kids play so good together and are so much fun, More fun than work, I can't think of a better way to spend the beginning of The New Year in the new house.
So just in case, I have cookies to bake. I promised to make more Mexican Wedding Cakes for everyone anyway, and I have the stuff so I might as well use it and make everybody happy.
These cookies are all my son ever asks for as a Christmas gift. The recipe is simple and easy, but time consuming. Worth every second if you take the time to beat enough air into the mix.
So here is a family treat for my friends and foes alike, enjoy!
Mexican wedding cakes
This can be only doubled once. Can’t be tripled, or quadrupled
1 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup powdered sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup fine chopped pecans
The trick to making these cookies melt in your mouth is to whip the butter until it looks like whipped cream and then add the dry ingredients a spoonful at a time whipping the whole time.
Pinch off small pieces of dough roll into balls the size of small walnuts.
Bake at 400 degrees about twelve minutes.
Roll in powered sugar while still warm.
These cookies frost themselves.
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