It's Fall, and I am starting to think about the holidays. When I think of the holidays, I think of my family. I especially think of my mom. She loved to bake for the holidays. She didn't bake for Halloween so much, but she did make Fall cookies. She had a wonderful sugar cookie recipe.
I've tried to make it in the past, but they never came out right. I either used too much flour to roll them out, or I burned them. The best part of making them is the dough. My mom's dough was so rich and buttery with just the right amount of vanilla.
I made a batch of dough this morning. I used the best ingredients I could find in hopes of having the dough taste as good as hers. I bought Kellers Irish butter, Eggland's best eggs, Watkins pure Madagascar vanilla, Gold Medal flour and Domino's pure cane sugar. I mixed it all together by hand and voila!! I tasted it, naturally, and it came out great. Tomorrow is the big test.
I'm making the cookies for my niece's Halloween party this week. They aren't going to be as thin as my mom made them, because some of them are going to have icing decorations. Not that horrible icing that you find on those so-called sugar cookies at the grocery store, but maybe some outlining in icing. I have bat, scary cat, coffin, ghosts, witch hat and pumpkin cookie cutters.
If these go well, I'll make Christmas cookies for the family. My mom used to make a whole bunch of different kinds of cookies and mail them out to my cousins and such. I'm going to make sugar cookies, chocolate chip, oatmeal and peanut butter cookies this Christmas.
I'm even going to try a couple of other things my mom was famous for, like her orange cake and her pineapple upside down cake. I already know how to make a good apple pie. I need to work on her recipe for lemon meringue.
I know you're probably wondering why a person with diabetes is around all this sugar, but I don't eat it. I just like to do things for my family. I was really meant to be an old-fashioned homemaker. My kids would have had fresh snacks when they came home from school. Dinner would have been homemade and delicious. Sunday would have a lavish meal with dessert.
I've been daydreaming about getting married again, and have been on Pintrest picking out wedding gowns and all kinds of day dresses. I like those moments in fashion where women wore daydresses and went out with hats and gloves on. I'm romanticizing I know, but that's what I do to pass the time. Truth be told, I am lonely again. But, at the same time, I don't want to be around anyone. I just want to be outside and watch people go by, if that makes any sense. I'm an observer.
I've been day dreaming about winning the lottery again too. Sure, lots of people do that, but my dreams are kind of different. I don't dream about buying a big house or boats etc. For one thing, I don't plan on living with anyone until I get married or adopt children. I'm going to give my sister and brother 1 million, Sean and Erica 500,000 each and say see ya later. I plan on buying a little house in Flowery Branch, and getting a couple of dogs and another cat. I don't know how much I'll win in the lottery but it's over 100 million, so I'll have plenty to do what I want.
I'm going to take cooking lessons, ceramics and painting lessons. I plan on having a little green house and a pollinator garden in my backyard to attract hummingbirds, butterflies and bees. It will be great. I wish I could do something with the cookies to open a business, but in fact, I'm lazy when it comes to working. I'd rather not work with the public if I can help it. I don't like people all that much. I'd rather eat cookie dough and watch Everybody Loves Raymond.
Peace Joy Love-B
