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December 07, 2003
let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!
Paulette woke me up this morning asking how bad the weather is here. She's stranded in Washington D.C. and since the airport is still closed it might be awhile before she is home.
The drifting snow is the strange part. There are weird trenches around some of the houses and piles against some sides of the buildings and cars. The neighbor's car across the street is invisible with the snow and the car on the other side of the street has been divided in half...snow piled high on one side and barely any on the other from the wind.
Joe shoveled yesterday morning and by mid-day you couldn't even tell...and he removed nearly a foot. The landlady was so pleased though that last night she asked me to come down to the cellar so she could give me something (that way we didn't have to go outside). She made us a blueberry pound cake. Half the time in the winter when Joe shovels, she makes pasta with meatballs. Yummy.
The shut-in weekend is gorgeous from the inside, however. The way the snow falls on the windows along the drifty side of the house...it piles up and gets caught in blotches in the screens and looks beautiful. Yesterday I made the usual holiday treats, peanut butter logs, sugar cookie dough (making the cookies today) and a Martha recipe in the December issue for vanilla crusted hazelnuts, which turned out great.
But the best one that I made were the Mayonnaise Sugar Cookies, always my favorite. They sound icky and the dough tastes weird and unappetizing, but the final product literally melts in your mouth. DEE-LISH!
Mayonnaise Sugar Cookies
1 cup mayonnaise (no substitutes...lowfat makes them taste and act like rubber)
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. almond extract
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cup flour
1 tsp. soda
Mix together mayo, sugar and vanilla. Add flour, soda and salt. Roll into 1" balls and roll in sugar (you can use colored sugar if making around the holidays). Flatten with fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until crispy (they shouldn't be brown, just barely golden).
Posted by crystallyn at December 7, 2003 10:21 AM
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Comments
Ah I have been meaning to ask for this recipe
YUM
:)
Posted by: Heidi at December 7, 2003 11:47 AM
Good luck with the snow. I hear that more was coming down today. :-(
The cookie recipe sounds good, but, of course, you have to post it when I've gone over to the low-carb way of life. More :-(
Posted by: Ancarett at December 7, 2003 12:53 PM