Except the evil peppermint Joe-Joe's. Yuck.

Those are my favorite!

I was wondering, Lee, thanks! Maybe if I go tomorrow they won't all be gone yet...

My holiday baking is underway: two pie crusts (CI recipe) are in the fridge for use on Monday or Tuesday morning...

I love that you have crime investigators' recipes for pie crusts.

Vodak recipe, Consuela?

I keep forgetting thanksgiving. I

you should beat your eggs with the milk/yogurt separately. mix the dry stuff separately, then put them together and fold in

Yup. Eggs/butter/vanilla/pineapple poured into a well of flour/sugar/leaveners pretty much.

Yay for the good ER visit, ita! Now they just need to work on consistency.

I am doing ALL THE LAUNDRY today, while the kids demonstrate their agility at finding silly Wii cheats, like Xmas hats on all the characters. Not a bad way to start the vacation.

Vodak recipe, Consuela?

Nope: 3/4 c cold butter, 1/2 c shortening, 2.5 c flour, 1 tsp salt, 2 Tbs sugar. Cut together until pea-sized (you will take my pastry blender from my cold dead hands), add 6-8 Tbs ice water (or more), toss gently. Shape into two disks, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate.

It's a lot of butter, but it's the most reliable crust I know. I roll it out with the plastic wrap on top, at least to start, using the awesome French rolling pin Beth's DH made for me. After I put it in the pan I stick the pan in the freezer (for a single-crust pie), and I don't usually pre-bake the crusts, because even with pie weights the damn sizes slump down. (I don't do many lemon meringue pies, as a result.)

(you will take my pastry blender from my cold dead hands)

sing it, sister!

I roll it out with the plastic wrap on top, at least to start, using the awesome French rolling pin Beth's DH made for me

ME TOO! Seriously, I do the same thing (including a rolling pin made by Beth's DH), although my crust recipe is slightly different.

Hmm. So far, so good. I added buttermilk/baking soda to the leavening, used some whole wheat flour but no wheat germ or flax (too many variables), and mixed it WAY less.

Still baking, but already bigger than the last batch.

OMG, I am feeling super lazy and like I don't want to walk to my parents' (1.5 miles), and I just remembered that they are doing work on the subway, so it's a free shuttle bus instead. That is no kind of motivation to walk!

Finally finished watching the Britannia awards. I don't know why Daniel Craig this year keeps striking me as a good choice to get hammered with. Something about his sense of humour, I guess. He just seems the right kind of blunt. Devastatingly hot doesn't hurt.

Discovered holes in the crotches of my jeans the other day. When I was out. The exact why I noticed of it isn't so important as...I haven't successfully bought a pair of jeans since Kat's babies came home. I'm clearly not prepared tight now.

Trying to work out the description of my OTJ. They're boot cut and as high rise as you can get these days without being mommy jeans. Can't be narrow through any of the butt or thigh.

These look like they might be close to what I had before: [link] and these look like they fit the textual description, but the photos look awkward. Why can't they just sort by rise as well as leg and fit?

I'm pissy because I suck royally at jeans shopping, and it irritates me to no end.

Now to go see where my muffin quest has left me...