Productive morning

[mrissa]

The last pan of lussekatter is in the oven, entirely out of season but filling the house with the smell of saffron. I hope puppies like saffron: kneading that much into dough is going to leave my hands slightly fragrant even after I shower and put on lotion and eat lunch and all of those useful things.

Mine aren't quite like the one in the picture. For one thing, they're not as pretty, rather more amorphous and sluglike. (I rolled them into the s-shapes, but they seem to have baked into figure-8-ish-blobs, with the lines of the s unclear.) For another, half of them have dried blueberries instead of raisins. This does not seem to me to be an obviously bad idea, but we'll see.

I also discovered that I can clean the downstairs bathroom in five minutes flat (it lacks a tub or shower), not counting the mopping, which is a separate chore to my way of thinking. This is useful information to have.

And I finished reading Desolation Island while working out, so I'll pick up something else, but I don't know what yet. Not the next O'Brian, as I don't have it on hand, and anyway I think it's probably better for me not to sink my brain too far into that world. Hmm. This is one of those times when I have too many good options rather than too few. We'll see.

Comments

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I can't be the only one who thought, "Mine aren't quite like the one in the picture," applied to the puppies, not the curlicue. Amorphous slugpuppies!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee. They aren't quite that young!

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Saffron and blueberries are a good combination I think. I make a saffron panna cotta that I use a blueberry sauce for. Yum.

MKK

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, that sounds wonderful.

For reasons I can't fully articulate, I'm now hungry for the huckleberry crisp at one of our favorite restaurants, served with cream cheese gelato. Totally different from saffron panna cotta. Silly brain.

[dancingwriter.livejournal.com]

Desolation Island was one of my very favorites in the series. And yeah, it's hard not to let your brain sink into that world when you don't take breaks between the books. Had to rewrite some sections of my novel because the hero had started to talk like Jack Aubrey, while I sometimes catch myself talking like Stephen, for all love. :-)

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Anytime I'm having to handle smelly stuff while cooking, ie: garlic, onions, etc, I use the nonpowdered latex medical gloves. I hate my skin smelling like that after washing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would a million times rather have my hands smell like saffron, garlic, lemons, or yeast than like latex. Ew.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Why would you do that, joy? :)