We had a big get-together/birthday part over at Allison and Marge’s place, as Deirdre, Gavin and Breic came in last night and last Wednesday was Breic’s second birthday. So Ted made fondue (swiss and cheddar) to go with bread and vegetables, and we had snow crab with garlic butter as the main course, then dark chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate fondue with fruit and candy to dip. It was SO GOOD! SOOOOO good! AND we left all the candy over there, so there’s no more for us to binge on. Ahahah.…
sweets
Things I have learned about sweets in the last 48 hours: 1. I will eat them if they’re there, whether I’m hungry or not 2. They make me feel icky when I eat them 3. They utterly kill my appetite for real food, but because they are in no way nutritional, I find myself foraging for something to eat, which ends up being more sweets 4. My husband thinks I’ve poisoned him. :) 5. That I would be much happier if I got all this stuff out of the house…
fudge
I think making fudge in a teflon-coated pan makes the fudge texture weird. I’m going to make the next batch of peanutbutter fudge in a stainless steel pan and see if this hypothesis proves out, as the peanutbutter fudge I made yesterday in the teflon pan had a sort of weird texture and the chocolate fudge, made in a stainless steel pan, did not. I just made a new batch of chocolate fudge in the teflon pan, and its texture is weird. So. I shall experiment and report back. After…
done, dammit!
I am done making candy for the day comma dammit. I could do one more batch of toffee and fudge, but my feet hurt and I’ve given the kitchen over to Ted for truffles and peanutbutter balls. I shall work on packing up goodies, and see if I actually need any more fudge or toffee. How’s THAT for a crazy idea! I mean, I know I’ll need some more for local consumption, but since the idea is to try to send all the stuff what needs sending tomorrow…
candy update
I have walked, which means I’m mighty shy on reasons to not make more candy or write. Tally so far: 2 batches toffee (1 to go) 1 batch coconut joy (1 to go?) 3 batches fudge (1-3 to go) 1 batch Russian teacakes (1 to go) Perhaps I should take up making Christmas cookies instead of candies. Although I’m not sure that’d be any faster, really. :) All right. More tea cakes, then washing of dishes to make more fudge, toffee, coconut joys. Want to know the weird thing? I…