Comments on: Hey TB!!! https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/14/hey-tb/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:46:53 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/14/hey-tb/#comment-34656 Jody Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:16:18 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53744#comment-34656 HO HO HO HO HO HO

]]> By: SDG https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/14/hey-tb/#comment-34647 SDG Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:41:45 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53744#comment-34647 When we were first married my wife used to participate in a cookie swap. She would take 2 dozen delicious cookies to the swap and come home with an assortment of 2 dozen mediocre to poor cookies. After the second year that I complained about it, she quit doing the cookie swap and instead just baked awesome cookies for us. I'm sure the cookie swap was poorer for it, but I didn't care. When we were first married my wife used to participate in a cookie swap. She would take 2 dozen delicious cookies to the swap and come home with an assortment of 2 dozen mediocre to poor cookies. After the second year that I complained about it, she quit doing the cookie swap and instead just baked awesome cookies for us. I’m sure the cookie swap was poorer for it, but I didn’t care.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/14/hey-tb/#comment-34644 Jody Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:42:58 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53744#comment-34644 every year she made a least 50 dozen Spritz cookies...and chocolate crinkles, which I thought for years was a time honored secret family recipe never to be divulged to anyone....until I found it in a cookbook. Someone spilled the beans I am sure...;) I am the original cookie monster so I have to be very careful what I make. The excuse the cats got into them doesn't hold water anymore. For whatever reason, probably a genetic anomaly, I do not care for fudge. That is always a safe bet. My speciality was Spanish potatoes but my family's disdain for ham nixed that. Too many discriminating tastes in my household for a real food fest. every year she made a least 50 dozen Spritz cookies…and chocolate crinkles, which I thought for years was a time honored secret family recipe never to be divulged to anyone….until I found it in a cookbook. Someone spilled the beans I am sure…;)

I am the original cookie monster so I have to be very careful what I make. The excuse the cats got into them doesn’t hold water anymore.

For whatever reason, probably a genetic anomaly, I do not care for fudge. That is always a safe bet.

My speciality was Spanish potatoes but my family’s disdain for ham nixed that.

Too many discriminating tastes in my household for a real food fest.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/14/hey-tb/#comment-34642 TB Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:32:50 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53744#comment-34642 <p>In our house, we have a "usual" batch of cookies and stuff I make.</p> (I do most of the cooking, since my wife can't stand at a stove very long due to her MS). "Usual" includes "spritz" cookies, molasses "rug" cookies, almond brittle, and sometimes fudge, which I usually undercook. Often we mail these to close relatives. Our favorites are rollout cutout cookies, frosted with almond powdered sugar frosting and decorated. Lately our daughter has helped us with these when she's home, since I suck at the rolling-and-cutting out part. My wife is much better at it, and we manage it once in a while with her working at a table. Some years we mail these out too, to great acclaim. If I could figure out how to automate this recipe, we'd probably get rich on it. Lately, my wife has been finding "cool" recipes on the internet, and I have to make those, too. Some of them are kind of weird, and almost all of them involve the kind of tedious preparation I don't like. But hey, I make them. Toasted cinnamon almonds in a crock pot is the latest, along with persimmon-ginger scones. In our house, we have a “usual” batch of cookies and stuff I make.

(I do most of the cooking, since my wife can’t stand at a stove very long due to her MS).

“Usual” includes “spritz” cookies, molasses “rug” cookies, almond brittle, and sometimes fudge, which I usually undercook. Often we mail these to close relatives.

Our favorites are rollout cutout cookies, frosted with almond powdered sugar frosting and decorated. Lately our daughter has helped us with these when she’s home, since I suck at the rolling-and-cutting out part. My wife is much better at it, and we manage it once in a while with her working at a table. Some years we mail these out too, to great acclaim. If I could figure out how to automate this recipe, we’d probably get rich on it.

Lately, my wife has been finding “cool” recipes on the internet, and I have to make those, too. Some of them are kind of weird, and almost all of them involve the kind of tedious preparation I don’t like. But hey, I make them.

Toasted cinnamon almonds in a crock pot is the latest, along with persimmon-ginger scones.

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