Friday, Well-loved recipes

 When I was a teenager and cooking and baking, I would get out my mom's cookbooks and they were tattered, and food stained.  Pages falling out, spines cracked and torn, and I told myself I would never let my cookbooks look like hers.

 Well 50 years later I have to laugh as my cookbooks, are worse than hers ever were.  My youngest daughter asked me to send her the Swedish recipe that was my great grandmother's and here is the copy I have.  Note the artwork on it done by my eldest when she was little.  Now I could copy this again, but memories? She was chiding me for the messy pictures I sent, well we will see if she can do better.

Look at this page in my Betty crocker cookbook, which by the way has no spine cover left at all, and the pages are often stuck together.

I am a messy cook.  My grandmother was a messy cook and so was my mother.  Oh well, I can live with that.

We still have Oliver and right now he is sleeping on the bed behind me. The house is a constant mess of toys and bottles, but he is still a joy.

I was able to get three more kinds of cookie dough made yesterday, and I hope to be able to get those done, today but we will see. Hubs has an office (his old office) Christmas party tonight.  We have to drive an hour there and back and I really don't want to go, but I will if he wants to.  It is the drive in the dark, on the crappy narrow roads. I would just rather stay home and bake.

Tomorrow Lil sis comes here, and we knock out, more pretzel dipping, Krumkake which is done on and iron, then lefsa which is a potato bread done on a special skillet.  It requires a special rolling pin and turner.  Then last, we do rosettes, which on are made on irons dipped in batter and fried in hot oil.  All the while we are making spritz and other cookies in the oven.  It will be quite the day, but if we can get all this done, I will be done with my baking.  Hooray! It will be nice to have mum here to help it is an extra set of hands.

I ran out this morning to get a prescription I tried to pick up yesterday and the pharmacy was crazy busy. There were only 3 chairs for sitting and I left those to the elderly.  I also let 2 elderly people in front on me as the wait was so long, and they were standing.  Took over an hour of standing to get the meds.  Frustrating.  I also went to Wal greens and got copies of Oliver's cookie stealing picture to frame for myself and his other grandma.  I also got a copy of a picture of an ornament that Hub's mom hung on our tree of one of her great grandchildren, she has never met.  But she received a letter and the ornament from him, and it has his cute little face on it.  She writes to him regularly, so we put the ornament on the tree and took a picture of it and then I had it developed so she could send him a copy of himself on her tree. She was thrilled.  It is the simple things.

The shop has gotten busy all of a sudden, which is nice as I can use the money.  But with Oliver here sewing is out of the question, and I think I will have all three kids next week as Schmills is out of school and Nates schedule is changing.  I guess I will be sewing at night.  I can do that.

So now I am off to make peppekakkor, sucre kasse, and kranzer cookies. I hope I can get them done before we have to leave for the party, but if not, we will squeeze then in tomorrow.

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim