Saturday, February 6, 2021

Saturday, Making cookies!

upcoming Saturday:
I have six sister missionaries coming over to make cookies this afternoon. It is great as we can knock out so many in just a couple of hours.  We will be making these Kinzer cookies that are some of my favorite. I also make these at Christmas.

I also did up a batch of Swedish sour cream sugar cookies, that we will frost.  I will have two rolling, and once we get going, it goes by pretty fast.

I am happy to say that I have everything here so did not have to go to the store. I even had valentine napkins,and doily's (good old mom).  She had so much of this kind of thing and I will eventually get it used up.

Daughter took Kelsa into the doc this morning for a check up and she weighed 11.8 at her 5 month mark.  She had three shots and by the end she took a couple of swings at the nurse and clocked her.  I guess she will be able to take care of herself when she gets older. Daughter said it was pretty funny.

D#2 is bringing the kids over tomorrow as she is having her dog groomed by the lady down the street that did Rosco.  Schmills is excited to make cookies with grandma.  I want to have a few cookies ready to frost when the girls get here. Schmills can make his own mess. 

Late Friday:

Thanks for all the ideas on meatloaf.  Which I did not make by the way.  Good intentions, but I really putzed around and cleaned house all day.  I even got my shop really cleaned up and it looks so nice.  I made up both batches of cookie dough and they are in the fridge.  Then I pulled out all the deco supplies and made sure I have sprinkles, food coloring, etc.

I am anxiuos to try meatloaf with horseradish in it, and another with green pepper, another way I have never tried it.  Got some great ideas for variety. But by the time dinner rolled around I went and got a pizza with a coupon which surprised hubs.  But I was just very tired.  So meatloaf another day.

I am really beat and seem to tire easily.  I am sure it is the weather and the lockdown just making me blah.  But I get to make cookies and then take them to people.  I also ran a diet coke over to a lady in our church who lost her husband about a month ago.  This is the second time I have gone and purchased two large diets at MC d's and ran over there and we just sat and visited.  She is lonely and trying to down size her husbands things. I also picked up two gift cards to local eateries for a woman in our church who is having a double mastectomy due to carrying the brac 2 gene.  She is in her late 30's and has three kids at home.  

I was able to line up two weeks of meals for her.  It was a little tricky as we can't take in homemade food as part of compassionate service right now in the state of Washington, where 1/2 our congregation lives.  So it had to be gift cards or store bought meals.  I have never purchased bags of chicken nuggets or things of that nature. So asking people to provide those things was just weird. But all said I was able to get meals provided for her the 12th- 25th of this month and then we will see how she is doing.

No more money came in today😟 but I have a few pending for tomorrow.

Do you make Valentine cookies?  If you do what kind?

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

Kim


24 comments:

  1. Wow, that is interesting. I have never heard of a state restricting home cooked meals but I guess the pandemic has caused all sorts of rules. The cookies look so good! I am a cookie monster, I eat lots of Chessmen by Pepperidge Farms. Otherwise, it is the no bake chocolate oatmeal peanut butter thingies, or cake mix cookies i different flavors. When you are baking challenged, options are limited. All the above are eaten with hot chocolate. So nice of you to go visit the widow and line up meals for the young woman, plus take care of the sister missionaries. We do not have sister missionaries in my branch because it is deemed too dangerous for them. They do serve in a couple of lower crime rate towns 20 miles in opposite direction.

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    1. When Hubs and I first started as housing stewards, we had a set of sister missionaries in Orophino, Idaho, which is almost entirely peopled by the mentally ill (State Hospital)and their families and has the State max security prison, so prison families. They had these two little sister missionaries in this awful tiny trailer and I had a fit. They were soon moved out and nly boys there now. Girls just don't belong in Orophino. We had fun, but boy the set up and clean up were so much work.

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  2. Have fun making cookies.
    How is the world is the state going to know if meals are home made? That is crazy. I would be more worried about restaurant food myself.
    I am sure they all appreciate your help.

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    1. I have no idea, it is actually through the church, and I think it is overkill, but I just follow the rules.

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  3. I make meatloaf but not as a loaf. It's a flat square like Salisbury steak I can pan fry it or bake it depending on what else I am fixing and I don't end up with a ton of leftovers from it.

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    1. I actually love cold meatloaf sliced thin on a sandwich.

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  4. I like smaller meatloaf options, so either in a muffin tin, or stuffed pepper meatloaf. Both are fantastic. With the ones stuffed in an open pepper, you also used the pepper top you've removed to dice up into the meatloaf.

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    1. We would stuff green peppers with meatloaf and rice and cover with a tomato sauce. Really good.

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  5. I've grown partial to turkey meatloaf, mostly just garlic and onion for flavor, but my new go to is to do the sweet and sour bbq sauce-jelly and ketchup. Love it. I do not make valentine cookies, but I bought a ton of cupcake liners after Valentines clearance for like 25 cents, so have used them the last few years for muffins or cupcakes and will do so next weekend and bring some to DH's mom. She and a couple friends will have all been vaccinated, both doses and I think they are getting together for a Galentines lunch or dinner. I am happy that she will, still safely I hope, be able to see a friend or two in person.

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    1. That is wonderful. I can't wait until we have groups that have been vaccinated and we can let our guard down a little. This has been especially hard on the elderly.

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  6. We are not allowed to bring in homecooked meals here either due to covid restrictions. Heck we can only have 4 people in our house and since we are two, that means only two more and they have to be the same people in our bubble. That is our two sons, and as they live at a distance we only get to see them once in awhile.

    I used to make sugar cookies for Valentines day, but since we no longer have young children that no longer happens. I may make a special cake though.

    God bless

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    1. Will this ever end? Yes it has to, it just has to....

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  7. Enjoy your Saturday! Baking cookies is a good way to spend some time. I'm making heart shaped sugar cookies with royal icing for V Day this year. I'll keep a few for us and then take the rest to work.

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  8. Enjoy your Saturday! I haven't made cookies for years. Hard to make them only for myself.

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    1. Yes I can't imagine making cookies in a small apartment, for just myself. But I bet your grand daughters would love to make cookies with you.

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  9. Sugar cookies are on the agenda.
    Blessings,
    d

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    1. Good for you. I actually make them for almost every holiday, always have.

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  10. Your cookies remind me of baking with my grandma as a kid, beautiful home made biscuits & cakes for afternoon & morning tea every day!

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    1. Yum. Baking was an art and everyone did it. IT was nothing to whip up several things a week.

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  11. Your cookies look wonderful Kim - wish I could reach into my screen. I did laugh about Kelsa whacking the Dr ... how funny !

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    1. She was really mad. We laughed and laughed as daughter showed us how she took out after the nurse.

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  12. Besides being a whirling dervish, you have a heart of gold! The woman who’s having a double mastectomy and the new widow, just Wow!
    I don’t make many roll-out cookies since my kids grew up and left home. Yours look divine, though! My husband LOVES brownies so that’s always available. In fact, he wasn’t fond of homemade so he gets boxed. I doctor them up for him so they’re darker chocolate and i get no complaints. And, the best part, i can take them or leave them!
    And, good for Kelsa! Strong women rule!
    Debbie

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    1. I know, she is starting young. I love brownies, but am likely to eat the whole pan.

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