February 11, 2007

CNY Goodies

Baking is therapeutic.

I've spent the better part of the weekend baking. And baking. And baking. The house is filled with the aroma of pineapple tarts and peanut-almond cookies. The kitchen's a mess, there's flour everywhere, we're all out of eggs and butter but we have at least 22 bottles of pineapple tarts and at least 25 bottles of peanut-almond cookies to show for our efforts.

It's really satisfying to see the fruits of your labour all piled up on the dining table. Tray upon tray of cookies waiting to go into the oven. Tray upon tray of tarts cooling on the racks. Row upon row of red bottle caps filled to the brim with either cookies or tarts.

And then you start divvying up the loot and you realise that once again, there's not nearly enough to go around. Somehow, every year, we go through the same calculations and every year it seems like we find more and more people to give the stuff away too. So from 50 odd bottles, we're down to just a couple for ourselves. The rest get given away to various relatives and friends so if you get a bottle or two, count yourself lucky. Delivery service starts on Monday :)

Okie dokie. Time for bed. Later, 'gators.

Posted by scrabbyfoo at February 11, 2007 11:38 PM
Comments

haha.. you mean there really was a delivery service going on? dang... but thanks for the goodies... yummy ... i 'prawmise' to bring them home unopened.. :)

Posted by: The Phantom at February 13, 2007 12:18 PM

Yeah, I was gonna drive all the way to your place! Hopefully this time around your folks will get to try some :)

Posted by: May at February 13, 2007 04:03 PM

dangs.... yeah.. and then can kill two birds with one stone... haven't shown you my new bachelor's pad yet... yes my parents will definitely have a bite of the goodies this time round.

Posted by: The Phantom at February 13, 2007 04:24 PM

Well, you have a good one - will check out your new place when you get back :)

Posted by: May at February 14, 2007 12:46 AM