While not professionally-decorated turkey cake, I thought that these homemade turkey cookies were fun. The girls and I each drew and cut our own turkey design on paper to use to shape the dough. Then we decorated with an assortment of sprinkles, chocolate chips and almond slices. No meat products were employed in the making […]
Entries from November 2004
Turkey cookies
November 28th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Tags: food
Brining and blogging
November 28th, 2004 · Comments Off on Brining and blogging
Friday I wanted to try to write some posts but I ended up spending most of the day brining a turkey. The bird had been a bargain and a bit of an impulse buy. On Thursday we went to visit friends who hosted and cooked most of the meal. But in the grocery store on […]
Tags: food
Forgiveness gets forgotten
November 25th, 2004 · 5 Comments
Forgiveness has been on my mind for a while. I’ve written this post and then wondered when I should publish it. Recently it seems that saying sorry has become a popular topic among blogs including The Art of the Apology, A Million Guys in Pajamas and So sorry. Here is my post…originally written in October… […]
Tags: journal
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s plants
November 24th, 2004 · 4 Comments
But I still take pictures of them! 😉 … thanks to my neighbors for sharing the loveliness… I don’t know the name of this flower, but it reminds me of the scene in a dressing room, someone trying on prom gowns and discarding them in heaps on the floor… One of the last roses of […]
Tags: gardening
The cost of vanity: paying for the placebo effect
November 24th, 2004 · No Comments
Last month I did something I thought I would never do. One afternoon, I spent a large amount of money on a tiny tube which promised to fix a facial flaw. I succumbed to my own dissatisfaction and surrendered to the cash register. This product required application twice daily for at least eight days to […]
Tags: journal
