An experiment

 It being Saturday morning I thought I should do some baking. I made scones first....

...and since I had taken the food processor down for that recipe I wondered how it would work to make cookie dough using the same method ( instead of the creaming of the butter with the sugar, adding the egg.... Apparently it doesn't work. So I patted the crumbly dough into an 8 X 12 pan and baked that until it was golden brown.
 

I had several cans of condensed milk in the pantry and lots of chocolate chips so I made that 3 minute fudge we all know and love. I poured it over the baked cookie bar.

Last of all I sprinkled flaked almonds on part of the fudge topping for those in the family who like nuts.

No doubt my family will love it.   Chocolate chip cookies will have to wait until  NEXT weekend. I'm done baking for today.

Am I the only one who likes to mess with recipes?  Sometimes it works and sometimes the result is less-than-satisfactory but it's almost always edible.

Thanks for coming by today.  Hopefully you're enjoying a lovely weekend.

Granny M.

Christmas around our House

 

First of all I want to thank you for the lovely anniversary wishes!   Then I want to warn you that what follows here is almost Wordless Wednesday with picture overload.

 

IF you're still here I hope you enjoyed a peek at Christmas around our house.

Have a lovely day!!!   GM

Good-Bye November

 

 

 I've changed the calendar page and I'm looking forward to these next days. I took out my Christmas plates; this one is new to me this year. I only have a few but I like to use them as often as I can.

I made the fruit cake and cut it into pieces which I've frozen. I know people let them "mature" but I prefer to keep mine in the freezer until I need them. 

 We had a quiet weekend. Today (Monday) is our anniversary and we'll celebrate it quietly.  

Have you started playing Christmas music yet?  I bought some Christmas CD's at the thrift store. Some are nice,  the ones I don't care for I've been bringing to the little free library. Obviously someone is taking them home because when I go back to bring more the others are gone.

I hope you're all well.  Thanks for stopping by.

GRANNY MARIGOLD\

My Newest Mask

 

 

It's a quiet weekend. The weather is quite lovely for the end of November.  Our anniversary is on Monday the 30th and way back 57 years ago we had mild weather then too. And that was in Manitoba where the end of November can be very cold and snowy.

 My youngest sister is an excellent seamstress ( not like me I'm afraid).  Last week she sent me another lovely mask ( it's not the first one she's sent). I wanted to show you how nice it looks so I tried my hand at taking a couple of selfies.  

I hope you're having a pleasant weekend.  Thanks for visiting today,  GM

Christmas Cactus and Cake

Most of the pink/peach buds in my Christmas Cactus have opened but the white buds are taking their time.

 I made Susan Branch's Snippy Doodle cake and although it was okay I don't think I'll make it again. I added a handful of dried cranberries which the recipe doesn't call for.

It's not raining today and I had a good walk. I'm about finished decorating  and I'm packing up some things that are not needed and will take then to the thrift store next week. I'll need less ornaments next year if I put up only one tree and I'm sure the extras will find good homes.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating tomorrow.!

Granny Marigold

Preparing for Christmas

 I'm sure I've posted about reading this book to M in past years but I just have to post about it again. Who knows how long he'll want me to read to him. He's 11 now and once they get to this age they seem to grow up too fast.  Doesn't he look cozy in his fuzzy onesie?

 

Middle son came up to help his children decorating the tree for me. This tree is in the sunroom. I also have one in the livingroom. This may be the last year I do 2 trees.  

 Yes, it's beginning to look Christmassy around here. I know many of you are waiting until after Thanksgiving to start on Christmas.  I think I'll  get out the raisins and glaceed fruit for the fruit cake and soak them in something alcoholic. I think there's some rum left from last year. No doubt soaking the fruit for a couple of days should improve the flavour.  Do you bake Christmas cake?  If so do you presoak the fruit?

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day.   GM

Susan Branch and Leaves

 

Do you enjoy Susan Branch's books and blog?  I noticed that her last two or three posts have been about Autumn and the beauty of leaves.  I've been noticing lately too what lovely colours our trees have turned.    I wish I could name each colour  and I happened to mention this to my eldest daughter. This is the 'chart' she created for me.  The colour names are almost as lovely as the leaves themselves. Take Alizarin Crimson..(that's the one in the upper right hand corner). Wikipedia tells me that it is a shade of red biased slightly more toward purple than orange. Then there's Burnt Orange, Burnt Sienna, and Yellow Ochre....

Back to Susan Branch. In her October 21 post she gives the recipe for Snippy Doodle coffeecake which sounds so fast and easy and tasty that I'm going to make it soon. After we finish the apple pie that we made for supper today.  DH helped ( in fact I think he did more than I did) and since it's not much more work to make a full recipe of pie dough, we now have 4 fine lumps of dough in the freezer for the next time we want pie. 

Time to stop rambling on here.  Thanks for coming by,  G.M.