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Thanksgiving went off without a hitch, of course Sunday promises to be more stressful when I’m doing all the cooking. Ok, not really, I enjoy the cooking and about the only stress I have with it is getting everything to be done at the same time. Case in point, the two items I took for Thanksgiving were simply stellar, and their recipes have already been tucked into the ‘make again’ file.
If you’d like either recipe; Pumpkin Cake with Egg-Nog Frosting or Sweet Potatoes in Orange Cups give me a holler or pick up this month’s Cuisine At Home. The cake recipe is perfect as written, but I’d make two changes to the sweet potato recipe. First I’d loose the orange cups. I had enough potatoes to cook some in the cups and some in a casserole. The ones in the cups took on a little bit of bitter pith flavor but the casserole variety was ‘roll-in-them’ good. They are very visually appealing, but I’m not sure the cups are worth all the extra work. Also I substituted rum (yeah, you aren’t’ surprised are you?) for the bourbon called for in the glaze. I did it because there was no bourbon in the house, but a friend who made the same recipe said he wished he’d done the same as his were distinctly bourbon-ee. Of course if you prefer bourbon to rum then never-mind, heh.
I played with the new camera during dinner, but it is still far smarter than I am. I did manage a shot of the sweet potatoes, but the cake went so fast I couldn’t get focused! I also got a photo of my Mackenzie’s mama, Bear*, with her most favorite thing in the world, a tennis ball.
She is seriously ball-happy and one of the sweetest dogs ever. She’s a leaner; she just walks up to you and leans her head on your knee and gives you one of those soulful doggy looks...*sigh* just heart melting.
It was a pleasant, if uneventful day and I even had enough time in the evening to work on my Pincushion Challenge Swap which is coming along nicely. Next up is the OrnaMENTAL exchange which I’ve challenged myself to finish up next weekend so I can put some hours in a promise I made back in October, and (finger’s crossed) finish up my brother’s quilt top. Until then, if you catch me making a promise or signing up for a swap, smack me please!
*I have not spelled that right, they spell it funny, like Baer or Baree or some such.