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Dec. 23rd, 2014 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm going to have to do the butterscotch chip bars tomorrow. I didn't manage to get the pan I need empty in time to use it and because I had to put the crock pot right next to the mixing bowl. (We're really, really short on counter space, and the power cord for the crock pot is extremely short.) I didn't want to risk getting burned. I did make Christmas porridge and start applesauce in the crock pot.
The applesauce was more of a challenge than it should have been-- We have a device for peeling, coring and slicing apples. It involves impaling the apple on three spikes at the end of a rod that turns and pushes the apple against the blades. With several of these apples, they didn't turn properly. Instead, the spikes gutted the apples, making it impossible to try again. I had to pare and slice those by hand. I'm not sure what happened (Scott who has used the dratted thing before with no problems also has no idea).
I got the lemon bars and some of the gooey butter bars into my big plastic tub, layered with waxed paper. Hopefully, they'll survive being taken to Scott's sister's place on Christmas.
Still to do tonight-- bacon wrapped dates. I need to recruit Scott's help to clear enough of the table to work on those. I'd like to have my laptop with me to play music (if both the laptop and I are in the dining room, it won't matter if Scott and Cordelia have the TV on. If the laptop stays in the living room, I won't be able to hear much no matter what's going on with the TV).
I am going to have to chop and saute garlic tomorrow evening after we get back from Scott's parents' place. Scott couldn't find the pureed garlic that we usually get (I don't think he looked very hard. He never cooks with it, so he doesn't realize how much easier it is than the alternative).
I'm still waiting to hear back from my second beta reader. I'm not sure I will at all. I queried her yesterday to see if she'd gotten to it yet, and she assured me that she'd get to it really soon, but I've heard nothing further. My first beta reader did SPaG and canon stuff. This beta reader is, hopefully, going to check that I've got certain details right. I'm willing to gamble, at this point, that I've got it close enough. It's not stuff that will be horribly bad if I got it wrong. I'd just like it checked and corrected before the story goes live.
The applesauce was more of a challenge than it should have been-- We have a device for peeling, coring and slicing apples. It involves impaling the apple on three spikes at the end of a rod that turns and pushes the apple against the blades. With several of these apples, they didn't turn properly. Instead, the spikes gutted the apples, making it impossible to try again. I had to pare and slice those by hand. I'm not sure what happened (Scott who has used the dratted thing before with no problems also has no idea).
I got the lemon bars and some of the gooey butter bars into my big plastic tub, layered with waxed paper. Hopefully, they'll survive being taken to Scott's sister's place on Christmas.
Still to do tonight-- bacon wrapped dates. I need to recruit Scott's help to clear enough of the table to work on those. I'd like to have my laptop with me to play music (if both the laptop and I are in the dining room, it won't matter if Scott and Cordelia have the TV on. If the laptop stays in the living room, I won't be able to hear much no matter what's going on with the TV).
I am going to have to chop and saute garlic tomorrow evening after we get back from Scott's parents' place. Scott couldn't find the pureed garlic that we usually get (I don't think he looked very hard. He never cooks with it, so he doesn't realize how much easier it is than the alternative).
I'm still waiting to hear back from my second beta reader. I'm not sure I will at all. I queried her yesterday to see if she'd gotten to it yet, and she assured me that she'd get to it really soon, but I've heard nothing further. My first beta reader did SPaG and canon stuff. This beta reader is, hopefully, going to check that I've got certain details right. I'm willing to gamble, at this point, that I've got it close enough. It's not stuff that will be horribly bad if I got it wrong. I'd just like it checked and corrected before the story goes live.
