Week ending 3/21/09

Ah vacation at last! While it will be spent around the house and locally, it still is a break from work. Daughter is is school doing practice tests for the OGT, husband in at work and I have a full cupboard for baking scones and making truffles plus a stack of new books to read from the library. Life doesn't get much better than this. I baked a white chocolate lemon shortbread cookie yesterday. It is crisp, lemony with a surprise of sweet chocolate......delicious. I need to take some to my mom and her aunt, they will enjoy them.

This is the week that I am committed to starting my walking again and to trying new recipes. I had to laugh yesterday as I thought "Didn't I just do all the dirty dishes? Why do I have half the sink full of them again? " Then I realized that my kitchen is a kitchen that an amateur cook/baker lives in. There will always be dirty dishes. I can live with that. Cooking and baking help me release my stress, it's the way that I show my family how much I love them, and it opens up new worlds that I may never see but I can taste.

This week I plan on making cappuchino truffles, maple syrup scones, chocolate chip scones (for my little sister....she loves them) and to try a few recipes for dinners for my family like a sweet buffalo wing night. Last night was Stuffed Taco Pasta Shells, which we all love. We had a dear friend, more like an adopted son, over for dinner last night. Ross has enlisted in the Navy and leaves for basic training next week. We will miss him so much, Ross is always in a great mood and quick to smile. He helped us teach Meghan how to ride a dirt bike and how to play eucher.
I hope that he will be safe and keep in touch with us.