Shelby

Ooooooh Pecan Liqueur!

That is such a compliment!!! Thank you

Oh you guys, thanks so much, but I promise, you guys bake way better and more complicated than I do. And, yeah....the wine is goooooood tonight lol.

Ok, all of you cookie bakers. I'm pooped. I made all of the dough yesterday and put it in the fridge--I do better that way. Making dough, letting it chill and then baking it all in the same day makes me antsy and I rush too much. Anyway, I baked everything today: These aren't cookies, but I doctored up a box of Ghirardelli brownies (don't judge me, they are just as good as I can make scratch or probably better lol) with some chopped up peppermint patty candies Soft molasses cookies. They taste just like Christmas to me. Sugar cookies that have cream cheese and almond extract in them. @Ling's lime melt-aways. I could eat every one of these. Not today...I'm sick of cookies today...but I could tomorrow. Raspberry thumbprint cookies I thought for sure I had some raspberry jam--or just any kind of jam in the cupboard, but no. And I had already made the dough. So I used a can of raspberries and made my own. Some all packaged up for my wonderful UPS delivery man. Excuse the ugly ziplock bags --he seems to be here every day except for when I make him something and then he's never here lol. And now I need a glass of wine.

When thawing them out, do you just lay them out on the counter or do you do put them in the fridge? I think this is my last dumb question.

I had a bit of pork belly, some broth and a few pieces of venison tenderloin left over from last week. The tenderloin is just ends and pieces that were too small to make steaks out of. Anyway, noodle bowls for us....the hot broth poured over the raw venison cooked it perfectly. Before the broth

Another question: What about cookies that are rolled in colored sugar and then baked. Can you freeze them ok or does the sugar not do well when they thaw out?

I do have one of those things but I would have forgotten to use it so thank you!

Thank you! I'm trying to talk myself into making cookies. I just don't enjoy it very much. But you guys make it sound so festive lol.

Kim, do you just stack the already baked and cooled cookies in ziplock bags and then freeze them?

That's the fanciest cheese on toast I've ever seen

Roast beef sandwiches and I count like 6-7 fries so get off me Shrimp alfredo over vinegar spinach--sounds weird but it's a good mix Had some leftover macaroni and cheese so I fried it up It was good. Too good. I can't make that very often. I will eat it all. Leftover pork roast and taters to go with the fried mac

Wow. I mean I knew some reviews were fake....but not to this extent.

That all looks soooooo gooooood and I need to find that beer, if only for the can. LOVE it.

That's not the kind of ambiance we want to see

I was going with "Only walk on the grass with bare feet and watch out for the tree branches" Oh I would have had a hard time not buying one of these.

I've spent far too long trying to figure out that sign

Fascinating! Many thanks for showing me a place I will never get to see in person.

They look very Christmasy

I meant to ask, do you stay in someone's home overnight? I assume there are no Holiday Inn's close by.........

Oh how I love your tree trimming traditional meal Pizza night last night. Pepperoni. Eaten with several glasses of wine and then blissfully falling asleep in my comfy bed.

I'm just in awe. The people, the dress, the food, the tea bushes. Everything. The lanterns that hang where you took your wander before the meal. Beautiful.

Ok Ronnie says he weighed around 200 lbs. field dressed. After boning out...cutting out a little shot up part, we got around 85 lbs. of good meat. He was a big deer. Thank you so much! I'm so tired I don't know which end is up.

Enabling alert Thank you for the link! I will take a look....it was such a bad experience that I think I have PTSD.

I will ask Ronnie about the first question when he gets home. I haven't SV'd any yet---but that will change now with these loin steaks. I think they would benefit because I think they are going to be a bit tough.