Screech!!! To a halt! I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am for the two feet of snow we got here in Baltimore! I know, I know, in Minnesota, two feet is an every day occurrence! Chris Ann was just saying the other day she was driving her daughter to soccer in the snow. Yes, she plays outdoors no matter what the weather! They are hard core up there! But, here in Baltimore, a call for two inches swipes the shelves clear of toilet paper and milk. So, just imagine for a minute what it was like for us with a prediction of 24 inches! Almost total gridlock in the parking lots! Of course, I made a daring excursion to the grocery store right before the storm to load up on baking supplies. Can you believe the flour shelf was empty! I guess everyone had the same idea! Bake for Christmas!
Yesterday I woke up and baked! I baked, till I was baked and I baked baked goods from Baked! (Did you follow that?!) I started with the dough that needed to be refrigerated. I made Sugar Cookies from Baked, Snickerdoodles from Magnolia Bakery and then moved onto Monster Cookies from Baked. I made homemade pie crust (my favorite recipe of all time) from Classical Home Desserts and made quiche for all my boys who had been out shoveling! I then moved on to mini black bottoms from Magnolia Bakery...the best I have ever tasted…and Butterscotch Pecan Brownies. Can you believe, my husband then came in and said, “Since you’re baking, I’d really like some homemade bread!” Being totally in the groove, I kneaded a couple of loaves of Breakfast Bread from Martha Stewart’s cookbook. I have to tell you, I was officially baked!
My kids went to work filling tins for their teacher gifts of the delicious goodies we had baked! We slid Monster Cookies into brown paper packages and tied them with string! These are a few of my favorite things! (sorry, couldn’t resist!)
I cleaned up my mess, my hubby poured me a glass of wine, I popped on the sofa and cracked open a book. He made dinner…spicy, curry with cauliflower, potatoes, carrots and coconut rice. (I love having a man who cooks!) We ended watching a movie.
I am so grateful we got snowed in! Being baked never felt so good!
I really really really wanted that snow that you got on the East Coast. It’s so not fair. And if MN got two feet of snow every day, no one would find us by Christmas time. But more snow would be great, and then some more after that.
The baked goods look amazing. I made Sugar Plums. YES! THOSE sugar plums!! (check the blog)
very nice! where do you get your string?
When I first moved to Minnesota, and they told me the kids go outside anytime it is above 0, I almost moved back East
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I’m envious of how productive you were today! I take a snow day as an excuse to drink hot cocoa in front of a fire.
that’s it! i’m getting a breville!
you’re insane kristin!!! in a good way!
hope you have a great christmas!
Oh hell yeah baked cookbook!! and wow was that a snowstorm! loved it!
Ned just got me the baked book for christmas yesterday and I can’t wait to dig into it! especially cause we went to their shop in charleston and was blown away with the quality of the sweets there.
I wish that I had had the foresight to hit the grocery store for baking materials before the storm. It would have been a welcome distraction, for sure.
Love the snow, though. We’re supposed to get some more later this week. It’s going to be a white Christmas!
Sounds like the perfect day! I did the same, but had the windows cracked with a nice breeze blowing through and we had queso for dinner. How Texan is that?
now that looks like a nice collection of sweet joy! GREG PS I nominated you for a Homie at The Kitchn so get over there and vote for yourself and your other fav blogs http://homies.apartmenttherapy.com/2009/category/home-cooking