November in Michigan can be so weird. Usually it's cold and dreary with an occasional sunny day thrown in the mix. This year it is just the opposite: sunny and even warm with the occasional dreary day in the mix. This past week it was so nice and warm and sunny that I was forced to wash windows! Today as sit at the kitchen window...the clean one...I am so glad I actually cleaned them and wonder why I hadn't done it earlier...too busy I guess. Perhaps it was also motivated by the newly painted walls in the front room, the bathroom, the hallways, the family room and the kitchen AND the new laminate floor in the kitchen. It all looks wonderful! What I do wonder about is why it is so difficult to remember how bad it all looked before it got done? It is the way everything should look, right? I am surprised how it has all motivated me to clean everything!!
Busy day in the kitchen with Cook's Illustrated
Just so I don’t forget. This all started with the latest edition of the Cooks Illustrated magazine. It’s a new format and seems to have a new focus. I found myself wanting to prepare a lot of the recipes but I did not have all the ingredients required so I shopped first. Today I stared with Guinness Chocolate Cake. I ended up making two so I could use the entire can of Guinness! One will go in the freezer for a birthday. It was pretty dense. The thick layer of good cream cheese frosting helped. Then I made a small batch of cookies- one bowl, one pan, 12 decent-sized Coffee Toffee cookies! ( Arie really likes them but I am not a fan - not enough coffee). Then on to the sauces and dip for oven-fried chicken wings. ( I was going to make these for Saturday night but I have since discovered that my DIL and grandson only eat the nuggets and my dear son gave me a long argument about fried versus oven-fried chicken. He says oven fried ...
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