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COOKIES!
Hurray! It’s time for one of my favorite culinary OCD attacks of the year. I make ten kinds of Christmas cookies every year. I make the same ten kinds every year, and I make many, many dozens of each one. I realized that if I make ten dozen of each one, then I make 1,200 individual cookies in the last week or so before Christmas. I wonder if there’s any help for my condition? I guess that’s why they call it Obsessive Cookie Disorder.
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It has been completely wild around here this week. Upon returning from our lovely, turkey-studded Thanksgiving, I was dumped into a frenzy of activity in preparation for not one but two videos, not one but two cocktail parties to prepare for and give (one of which was videotaped!) and multiple things to cook, recipes to write, and college apps to be sent.
As it absolutely should, everything came to a resounding halt when I successfully inveigled a most beloved, most heartsick pal to come over for a visit and a quick lunch. It had to be her ultimate comfort food, it had to be super quick (she’d be here in less than an hour) and I was totally unprepared.
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I have long hankered for just the thing to eat on Thanksgiving morning. It needs to be quickly and easily whipped up and served to the non-cooks who then need to go for a walk, go watch the parade, or do whatever they want, but most importantly, get out of the kitchen! Serious business is afoot.
Ah, pumpkin muffins. The thing is, I baked my way through four recipes that I found and didn’t like any of them. First of all, I feel strongly that they need to be really pumpkiny. Some had applesauce in lieu of some of the pumpkin and then they weren’t appropriately orange and that kind of defeated the whole point as far as I’m concerned. A couple called for cream cheese frosting on top. Now to me, that turns them into a cupcake, and I’m really not a proponent of cupcakes for breakfast. Not that I don’t want a party going on up top…I most assuredly do! Some of them made mingy little things. Not good enough. I want a big, bold muffin….big enough, in fact, to keep them out of my hair until time for THE MEAL.
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There’s just something about meatloaf. It’s nothing fancy or difficult, but sometimes it’s just the thing. The other day we had some friends visiting from England and after considering all sorts of glamorous things to make for them, I decided that the perfect thing would be something they don’t get at home. I rustled up Felix’s favorite meatloaf, some mac ‘n cheese and green beans lickety-split and everybody was happy as can be, though, as our guests were leaving, Warwick turned to me and said, “What WAS that?” So, Warwick, here is what it was…
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