Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

December 20, 2007

Flour power


We've been taking in the usual assortment of Christmas goodies the past couple weeks -- a shipment of candy from Lisa's mom in Milwaukee (including the mysterious substance known as fairy food) here, a loaf of bread from my sister-in-law there.

We also have a couple dozen of our own cookies still lying around. But we -- and by "we" I mean mostly Lisa -- have been keeping up our end of the supply chain up as well. I spent much of last weekend in awe of the sheer number of cookies that came out of our kitchen -- enough baked goods to make Mrs. Field go, "Damn, that's a lot of cookies."

After the jump, a rundown.

These numbers are approximate, but suffice to say that we completely covered the dining room table with plates and boxes of cookies and nuts. To wit:

7 dozen chocolate mint cookies

7 dozen pepperming sugar cookies

6 dozen oatmeal-white chocolate-cranberry

6 dozen oatmeal-pistachio-cranberry-apricot

5 (or maybe 6) dozen peanut butter Kiss cookies

4 pounds or so Union Square spiced nuts

And, oh yeah, 3 pounds or so of sugared pecans.

I really wish I'd taken a picture of the dining room table. Bad blogger. But to those of you who got them, hope you like them. I think they're pretty darn good.

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