I have Starbucks next to me. I have time to write. When I get hungry, Tom already picked up Chinese takeout for our Christmas Eve dinner. And today, we did some stuff in the kitchen. It’s such a gesture toward normalcy that I kept photographing things.
Started with four recipes.
Ingredients, ready-to-wash food processor after crushing vanilla wafers. Plus the all-important RUM for rum balls.
Forgot to take an in-progress photo, but the finished rum balls:
Progression of sausage and cheese balls:
Progression of cheese straws:
Joint effort between Tom and me to get this all done.
And there’s Tom’s birthday cake, currently in progress.
I haven’t baked a chocolate pound cake from scratch in a long time. Wish us all luck.
ETA: Y’all–it’s damn near perfect. YAY!
We had sausage cheeseballs too!
I didn’t even know that Black & Decker made food processors! I guess cooking is a kind of DIY, though?
And interesting that you use Bacardi in the rum balls. I would naturally reach for dark rum, but light rum makes sense!
So much food!
One year when Debby was here (while we still lived at The Compound), she broke my old food processor. I grabbed one fast at the grocery store–whatever was available. I didn’t even notice it was Black and Decker until you said so. =)
I’m surprised I used rum this year. I usually grab whatever’s handy and have made a lot of bourbon balls in my time. I should try the Scotch next year and see what happens.
I so want brownies –now!
Bake ’em!