Today was one of those weird days.
It started with a blood test to hopefully sort out this issue.
Then brunch with a friend at Indro and finishing off the Christmas shopping.
Spending close to an hour at Spotlight in the line and then getting a refund sorted.
Going to Mum’s to use the oven and me not having my baking head screwed on properly.
Wondering what on earth is going through the head of my younger brother….
Wishing it would rain and storm but only getting a drizzle.
I decided it would be a really nice, cooling and mind clearing to take lay on the grass in the back yard on a yoga mat with some Thelonius Monk, a pillow and a candle. It was really nice till the mozzies and bitey bugs realised where I was…..
Tomorrow is Sunday and we shall see what the day brings.
I was looking for a wreath for a little while and I found this one tucked away on all by its lonesome on a shelf in Myer. The best thing was that they were having something like 30 or 40% off wreaths….. I wasn’t going to leave it there.
I love the way it catches the light but more so how the bells jingle and jangle as you open and close the door 😀
I had a second go at making brittle tonight and it was much more successful than the first as I didn’t get the temperature hot enough on the first batch. This time though I reached and maintained crack and now I have a tray each of hazelnut brittle and pistachio brittle. So Good!
I was extremely lucky that Karl managed to find me a biscuit extruder piece in Iceland so I was able to make Loftkökur myself on my mixer in my house. Otherwise I would have had to have used Mum’s mixer and her attachment. When it arrived though, the extruder piece did not fit through the opening on the mincer. I was lucky that my cousin was able to take it in to the shed and shave off some of the plastic and now it fits. I made about five trays of Loftkökur tonight and I had forgotten all about the hit of ammonia you get when you open the oven door for the first time. Youch!
I also rolled about a third of a batch of the the apricot/sunshine balls but after rolling three batches of rum balls yesterday my poor hands couldn’t cope!
On a side note I’m not at all happy with QR at the moment. Last night they pressure cleaned that station (It does look a whole lot cleaner now) but oh the noise!!! It was so bad that closing all the doors and windows only made a minor difference. It got to a point where I ended up taking a Mersyndol to dull the headache it was giving me and to put me to sleep as I had tried for about two hours to go to sleep. Normally when QR is doing track or station work we get a leaflet in the letterbox advising of us such. We didn’t get a leaflet for last night, which makes me really unimpressed. Let me tell you that I’m ringing QR tomorrow to have a wee chat!
Not just any Vegemite jar, 151/365. This is the Hartshorn salt jar. Empty because I finished off the supply we have making Loftkökur tonight.
This afternoon when I got home I rolled the rum balls and made the Loftkökur mixture. Tomorrow night I will bake the loftkökurs and the pfeffernüsse and possibly even roll the sunshine (apricot) balls. Friday night I will most likely make another batch of brittle and bake some of the biscuit dough in the freezer. Saturday and Sunday will see me bake biscuits and ice the lot of them. That should hopefully mean that by Sunday arvo all the Christmas baking will be done.
My eyes are currently telling me it is time to go to bed, the cake in the oven though is telling me something else. According to the recipe it still has about 10 mins to go, knowing my oven that could be anywhere between another 10 to 50 mins. I can smell the ginger wafting through the house and oh it smells good. This afternoon I also made my first batch of peanut brittle – should have doubled the recipe but other than that fairly good.
I came across a link to this dress on some blog the other day. Is it not just one of the most gorgeous dresses you have seen? I would love to wear this to a party and the ballet and dinner and the shops etc etc.
I had the day off today so I was able to attend (great) Aunty Lil’s funeral. As it always is with such things it was nice to see family that I hadn’t seen in a while but it always is nicer to catch up in more pleasant environments. Grandad is now the only one of his siblings left. He turns 90 in Jan.
