cookie dough as far as the eye ( which is nearsited)

can see....
i got the second double batch of snickerdoodles dough done, and the first batch of cream cheese spritz cookies dough done,
today i will do the oatmeal raisin doughs and i need to get the peanut butter for the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies....i thought i had it!
and two more bricks of cream cheese for the molded angel cookies

i think this years theme is going to be burgundy and gold so i am getting a garland with pointsetta and cutting them apart to use as the picks for the trays, with gold curling ribbon
i may if i have time, paint the pointsetta's edges with gold or something
and shimmer up the angels with eatible lusters

meanwhile i was up all night listening to the intense rain and winds
it was some bad rain.......
i can't convey the amount of badness of the rain i listened to
i am going to be surprised if we aren't flooded
i will be happily surprised if all our trees keep their heads
i also am not going to be able to put the ducks out like usual today, i have to give them each a turn in the upper pen, which means four seperate turns, not just the three girls at once then falstaff......... momma is broody, lilli is still homicidal.......and phoebe loves me but isn't too keen on momma and lilli wants to kill everyone........ DUCK PMS........ who knew?

it is also supposed to be really really warm again today
which i suppose is good but as soon as it warms up i get those bites starting again, that i've been getting since spring just on my arms and legs!

today as i am apparently going to be taking some sort of time to go to town, i better get my assets to the post office
i know that my new glasses should be there, as well as the mail that i am waiting for from the lab.... i keep thinking there is something else coming but if there is i can't remember.....

WAIT, I REMEMBER! knitting needles........ ahem....... shhhhhhhh please don't judge me....... i needed a 40 something incher for a mobius

oh man..............

and the chili i made the other night was great, we also had it last night, but TONIGHT, i am thinking......hmmmm maybe pork loin or turkey soup
i would like to think of something different to do with pork loin
i make it a bunch of ways:

plain roasted
pot roasted with mixed veggies
in a sweet/sour bbq sorta thing
with sourkraut and apples
with cidar glaze
with peach grilling sauce
with pineapple, onions, and sweet peppers
pork stew


i have always wanted to do a stuffed pork loin with fruit and bread crumbs and then tied with butchers twine and roasted under a coating of thick streaky bacon, and maybe pineapple rings
i really should think about getting the twine so i can do that huh?

i also have been known to cut the loin into thickish chops and then use them in either smothered pork chops, or breaded baked pork chops, or even plain pan braised with paprika and garlic........

or even pork chops braised with sweet red pepper sauce, oinons and cream...

you know, i just realized.........bernie eats GOOD
really really GOOD

but i am still looking for something different with them all

now something else i wanted to mention
duck fat
sounds gross but turns out to be really good for you like olive oil
too bad MY ducks don't have fat as they are muscovy ducks.
now we needs us some nice fat real ducks such as these rouen ducks

although i been looking at ducks and i am thinking either the buff duck or the appleyard would be a better idea.....
but really, i think my muscovy ducks are the prettiest in the world......(funny how that red warty carunkling grows on you)

if i do decide on raising these guys i will be planning on maybe one or two girls and the rest boys, for the table. so no getting too friendly with them

today i have to make turkey stock, and more cookie dough ( i should have started in august and froze it all)
oye
ok off i go for my second cup of coffee