I chuckled when I saw her note. Notice the "key". 
Is this cool or what???!!! It's a "bias tape maker". I wanted to use the cordinating fabric for the bias tape on my apron instead of the solid kind you buy. This little tool made it so easy to do!
Grumpy Danny. Not sure what this picture is about?! (Don't tell Brett he has his jersey on.)
I've had this Bosch mixer for a few years. I absolutely love it for yeast breads but wish I had room to keep my Kitchen Aid on my counters also. I prefer the Kitchen Aid for cake batters and thinner type of batters. The great thing about this mixer is that it will hold 5 pounds of flour and will mash 10 pounds of potatoes.
These are suppose to look like "dogs". When you fry them the front is "suppose" to curl up and the back are the legs (kind of like a scotty dog). Mine never look like "dogs". In fact, today, the second batch of dough I just cut them in little squares.
"Dogs" are raising.
Molly, the happy fryer! Notice my "antique" deep fryer. A wedding gift 31 years ago but still works great!
They may look a little dark but I prefer over done than doughy.
Yum!!!! The finished product. After I took my third? fourth? fifth? sixth? one I asked Molly, "How many of these have I eaten?" She answered, "I don't know, but probably not as many as me". Who needs supper?!
Lynette and I made four different cookies today and then dipped pretzels. The cookies were so-so. The Lemon Meltaways were the most disappointing. They did not spread at all when we baked them and they didn't look too pretty. We sprinkled the "sprinkles" on them to make them look prettier. They were kind of "blah" tasting. The Peppermint Snoballs were pretty good. They were similar to Russian Teacakes but with melted white chocolate on them and crushed candy canes. The Triple Chocolate Caramel Cookies kind of flopped. The caramel bubbled out of the cookie while baking. They still tasted pretty good. I liked the Cherry Chocolate Nut Cookies. The kids might not. They have chocolate chips, chopped marschino cherries and chopped pecans in them. Oh well, we had a fun day.
Now the dipped pretzels were good!! We melted a bag of caramels with 2 Tablespoons water. We dipped the pretzels in the caramel and then some in slightly crushed rice crispies and some in chopped toasted pecans. When they set, we then dipped them in melted chocolate. We sprinkled crushed candy canes on some and some I drizzled white chocolate. They were fun to do and Oh So Good!
Molly had an orthodontist appointment today. As I was locking the door to go get her from school, I started thinking.........Gretchen's staying after school.......Hopefully Kaitlin isn't.......I decided to leave the door unlocked incase Danny WAS the only one coming home. Gretchen was staying after to video a project for her Digital Imagining. She needed people for her film. But then I thought I remembered her saying they were all done with the video except they needed a few more seconds of a couple people she named. Kaitlin wasn't one of them. So I started relaxing thinking Kaitlin must be coming home on the bus. When I left the ortho at 3:20 I called home. The phone rang three times before someone answered:
I will try again to make an apron. I need to run to Joanne's to get a "Clover Bias Tape Maker" as the apron on the right calls for homemade bias tape and the book recommends the Maker. I will make the apron out of the green with the bias out of the purple. I don't care for the large pocket so will make the smaller pocket.
Here is my first attempt at an apron. It came out way to big! They must run big as I made an X-Large thinking the Large would be too small! It would make a great maternity apron.
