LONG DAY IN THE KITCHEN…

LONG DAY IN THE KITCHEN…

Up and at them.. early 0 hour… well for me.. at least. See in the winter I sleep in..  because I am a daylight person..  So when the sun is up at 5am. in the summer… I am up at 5am.  When it is up at 7:15am in the winter…  I am .. yep, up at 7:15 or so.. some times 7:30 if it is overcast and the sun is not coming thru my window.. The bed is too warm to leave before that.. and nothing is hurting on my body.

So to be up at 6am.. yesterday morning… quick breakfast.. and I was ready to go.. Had all the bowls out, and all the measuring cups from 1 cup to 8 cups..  I had the cookie sheets and the wire racks.. All out the night before..  I got the bowls in a row..  and started to put ingredient in them… and then to my HORROR… I saw I did NOT have enough brown sugar.   So called the King (he is up at 5am and with his cronies at the HOOT OWL.)….I asked him to pick up 4 bags..  he got me 5.. that is ok..  Any way.. got the ingredient in each of the bowls.  Not enough nuts for all 3.. which is fine.. as I try not to put nuts in all of my cookies. For those who are allergic.

So with breakfast and ingredient ready to go..  I was spoon  in hand at 8am.. Spooning dough out on to the cookie sheets.  I have 6 cookie sheets..  and by 8:30… first one in..

By 1pm I was all done with all of the sheets and cooked and cookies on the wire racks.

By 3pm all were cool enough to bag. 10 to a bag. Well, I started out with 12.. but when I noticed one of them was 2 short because my tester husband took 2..  so figured… ok. 10 is a good number.

Had them all bagged by 4. And out in the refrigerator in the garage. (a little out of range for my tester husband to get) As  there were a few tinged at the edges.. which became the Testers..  lol..

At 5pm..I was fixing dinner and eating..  by 6.. I had the breads back in the house from the garage.. and wrapped them in wrapping… as I didn’t like how the foil fit around them..  By 7pm, I had the pans all washed, and placed outside in the cupboards in the garage.  And the kitchen back to normal..  what ever normal is..   That is the longest I have been in a kitchen.. since.. well, I don’t remember.. Since retiring… and then the King retired.. and he loves to cook, I don’t do much but prep work for him.  BUT I AM DONE..

I use to do breads, cookies, candy and one time did jalapeno jam.   And we gave it all away in baskets for gifts..  But we don’t do that anymore.. for one thing.. a lot of the receivers have passed away..

But at least I got it done.. until next year..