Still hoping.

[mrissa]

There are very few things more magical* than waking up before dawn and looking outside to see the snowflakes drifting down in the circle of the streetlight.

Sadly, that didn't happen to me this morning. Not even close.

I do have the cookie recipe from last night posted, though: Double Chocolate Sour Cherry Hazelnut Cookies, although this recipe will do for pretty much any nut and dried fruit, and will also do for no dried fruit at all. (Probably not for no nut, but I haven't tested that yet.) I have the oats and buttermilk combining themselves for oat cakes, but I haven't done them yet; I also hope to manage some dipped apricots and some apple bread before the day is through, and pepparkakor and two kinds of fruit shortbreads are also on the list for this week if I can manage them. (Probably raspberry and apricot, this year, but it may turn out to be raspberry and lemon or peach and cherry or who knows what.)

The baking has to fit itself in with other things, though, and today those other things involve at least one chapter of Zodiac House, probable poking of a short story, and -- most thrillingly -- the purchase of a new mop. (O my heart, be still!) There may be mending and bill-paying and short story submission in the midst of all this. You just never know what wild and crazy turn my days will take. I might even work on a different short story than I intended. (I'm afraid you're going to have to supply the Tense Movie Music on that one yourself.)

*For morning-person and winter-person values of magical; Your Magic May Vary.

Comments

[selkie-b.livejournal.com]

MPR apologized this morning for no snow *laugh*

It stayed too warm just long enough for the rain to move out before it turned fully to snow *pout* I was hoping too... I want a REAL winter dammit!

[fiddledragon]

I woke up half hoping to see white this morning too :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I love MPR. And Paul Douglas The Weather Guy. And....

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Whenever you write like this, I just wish I could be there to SMELL the inside of your house...

[scottro.livejournal.com]

"not for no nut"

This has to be the snippet of the day.

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It smells loved here. The apple bread is studded with hazelnuts and cooling on the kitchen counter.

[pameladean]

I came up the basement stairs this morning and thought, "That light's wrong." It was lovely light, of course, but most definitely not snow light.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I remember waking up to snow light one Saturday in college, with nothing urgent to do and no one urgent to see, and there was no reason whatever I couldn't just kneel on the bed and look out the window (which was high enough to necessitate the kneeling if I wanted to see the snow).

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

I have to sleep with shades down (I sleep badly and light wakes me super-early) so sometimes, when I think there might be snow, I have to get out of bed and peek out behind the shade. Which always seems less magical until yes, there is snow, and it's like a secret.

Does one have to use margerine for the pepparkakor or is that just a style thing? We are a very butter household.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will probably use butter in mine, but I reproduced my mother's recipe exactly. If you know how to mess with cookie textures, it shouldn't be a problem.

Oatmeal sugar cookies

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I have the dough chilling right now. I respected the recipe. The only alteration I made was using real butter. The dough was stiff enough that I added the oatmeal by hand with a wooden spoon instead of the stand mixer- this is possibly because of the butter.

I will update later.

Re: Oatmeal sugar cookies

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

What shapes are you going to use?

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

You are almost certainly an agent of evil. In other words, the cookies have come out and I've eaten six. :)

I did holly leaves, teapots, kiddush cups, candy canes, pigs, unicorns, angels, doves and bells.

The unicorns had a very low fail rate (only 1 became a horsie) and the doves surprisingly high. That one is a profile of a dove in flight and the length made them unstable coming off the sheet. The holly, bells and angels are all good, large, solid shapes which lend to easy cutting, so I did a lot of those.

They are going to a party tomorrow along with the disappointing molasses cookies. The molasses aren't bad, mind you, just non-descript and lacking the wow factor I tend to demand from my baking.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Glad to be an enabler.

I am surprised at how few moose failures I have, considering the rack on my moose cutters.