the quotidian (11.19.12)

Quotidian: daily, usual or customary; 
everyday; ordinary; commonplace


A Saturday experiment: ginger cake. 
The recipe calls for grinding a crazy amount of chopped fresh ginger,
 about 1/2 cup, in the food processor with the sugar and spices. 
How brilliant! How fragrant! 
There’s also ground (dried) ginger in the recipe, the glaze is made with ginger ale, 
and then I put chopped candied ginger on top. 
Point made. 

Drawing on fabric: a leftover project from Sunday school that has occupied him for hours.

Sweet discipline. 
To minimize the mind-numbing bickering that goes on in this house, I lay four Twizzlers on the counter and, for a specified period of time (in this case, afternoon clean-up), every time someone says or does something nasty, I take a bite of that person’s Twizzler. It’s stunningly effective. Plus, I pay better attention to the dynamicsโ€”I don’t want to miss out on any Twizzler bites. 

Packing apples. 

Peeling potatoes for a batch of sweet rolls

My ancient workhorse: whipping the hot marshmallow batter. 

You can’t tell from the picture, but there was quite the crowd of snitch-happy onlookers. 

In pretty, thrifted tins: caramel popcorn

French chocolate granola, ready for the bake sale. 
(That’s where the marshmallows, caramel popcorn, and sweet rolls were destined, as well as a bunch of other things not pictured here: ginger cream scones, cranberry orange scones, sourdough bread, chocolate peanut butter cake, and monster monster cookies.) 

 Assembly line: readying the prayer cards, fundraising letter, and pledge cards for church mailboxes. 
For those of you whose mailing addresses I already have, I’ll be sending you a packet later on this week. If I don’t have your mailing address and you’d like to receive one, let me know.

This same time, years previous: the quotidian (11.16.11), a homeschooling experiment report, red lentil soup with lemon and spinach, bad mamas

5 Comments

  • Judi

    We've used the twizzler idea too. It works especially during family meetings when everyone seems to do a lot of bickering and not enough listening! ๐Ÿ™‚ I would like to have visited your bake sale!

    Judi ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Margo

    1. So I should make the cake? This might be good for husband's birthday.

    2. I can't believe the amount of baking you did!

    3. I'm going to do the Twizzler thing, but with chocolate chips (which I like more than Twizzlers).

    4. I hope I'm on the prayer card list ๐Ÿ™‚

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