well, not just yet, thank god. i still have quite a few things to do. bake bread. i have a list of things, but the list isn’t so bad.
ok, i do have a brownie issue. amy has a fabulous brownie recipe, it makes the most delicious chocolatey delicious chocolate brownies ever. i’ve never found a brownie recipe that’s as good as a boxed mix, but these are PERFECT. i made a recipe in a big round pan and kept checking it and it just didn’t seem done enough, so i baked it longer than the time. and then i cooled it and flipped it over…and it turned over with a loud THUNK.
BROWNIES SHOULD NEVER THUNK. it should be a pain to turn it over, it should be slightly underdone so it breaks up a little bit and has to be jammed back together and frosting it should be a little tricky because of the pieces of moist brownie clinging to the frosting.
but no, the frosting was easy because the flipped-over brownie was hard. i frosted it anyway, thinking the frosting would make it softer. it looks BEAUTIFUL now, with a white frosting spider web. i decided people wouldn’t care…but his morning i woke up and thought WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? so i’m going to make another one. because i just have to.
my friend gary sent me an idea for a halloween decoration from martha stewart, glow stick spiders. they look really cool and i thought I COULD MAKE THOSE.
but time’s up. NO MORE DECORATIONS.
I SOLEMNLY SWEAR NOT TO BUY ANY MORE DECORATIONS TODAY.
unless i find a big ceramic plate.
i keep saying that every day, and every day i buy something else. lately it’s not decorations so much, it’s halloween ceramic dishes. i really need a good-sized halloween plate (ok, ANOTHER halloween plate), but all i see are little one, so i buy those. so now i have quite a few small halloween plates. BUT THEY’RE VERY VERY CUTE plus everything now is on sale, because it’s TIME FOR THE XMAS DECORATIONS ALREADY, WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME BUYING STUFF FOR HALLOWEEN?
i can’t imagine being this excited about the xmas decorations. maybe if we were having an xmas party. but no, it just wouldn’t be the same.
i also got an e-mail from allrecipes.com, with HALLOWEEN BAKING IDEAS. no no no, that’s all i have to say. last night i spent about three hours decorating a whole lot of halloween cupcakes. they’re very cute, i have to say, but at some point i thought “these cupcakes are really for kids, aren’t they?” what with the large amount of decorations. but then i decided i didn’t care.
but i made a bunch of cupcake spiders, but they required licorice legs. i bought a big bag of licorice – and it’s the wrong kind. i bought licorice VINES and i needed licorice ROPES. oh brother. i don’t usually ever buy licorice. i hope they sell licorice ropes at walgreens because i really don’t have time to spend the day hunting down licorice ropes. i have to make that new brownie.
“you could just forget about the licorice,” you might say. BUT THEN THEY’D JUST BE LEGLESS SPIDERS. they don’t even look like spiders without the licorice.
i have to go now. time is ticking.
ok ok ok,
friday morning grace.