Yes I know that Christmas was months ago, but I never posted what turned out and what didn’t. The maple fudge turned out well. It was popular with Carl’s coworkers so it will definitely be made again next year. I used Pioneer Woman’s sugar cookie recipe. It always turns out well for me, but the regular recipe makes a small amount of cookies so I always double it. I also made oreo pops. Take a double stuffed oreo and separate the cookies and dip a lollipop stick in candy coating then into the oreo stuffing. You don’t want to push it down too much as the cookies may break. Then put the other half back on. You want a good bit of candy coating to make contact with both halves of the cookie. After the candy coating is set, dip the cookie pops into melted chocolate or candy coating. Lay them on parchment paper to set. I also make hot chocolate on a stick. I think I got the recipe from a link on giver’s log, but I’m not sure. I’ll have to look for it again. The first batch of toffee did not set at all. I think the issue was my candy thermometer. I bought a better one and the second batch turned out great. I did flip it over and add a second layer of chocolate so there was chocolate on the top and bottom. The chocolate mice turned out pretty well. If anyone in the family has a request for next year, please let me know.
Last year when we got back from vacation, Carl and the boy made me 2 garden boxes. I planted some beans, 2 types of lettuce and spinach. I also planted broccoli. The beans and leafy stuff did really well. The broccoli did ok. I got 3 tiny heads of broccoli that looked more like an individual floret than a head of broccoli. Gardening is always an experiment and the broccoli just wasn’t the best one.
Anyway, I have already started on the Spring garden. I have corn, peas, green beans, 2 types of tomato, anahiem peppers for the girl, zucchini, black tulips, rosemary, chives, and parsley. The girl wants to grow mint so I have a pot ready for that whenever the garden store gets in mint plants. I also have a cayenne pepper plant to give as a birthday gift. We’re trying out some citronella plants to see how well they work at keeping the mosquitoes away. Those are in pots so we can move them around as needed.
The peas, beans and corn have come up. The tomatoes and peppers are starting to sprout. The zucchini were seedlings I bought so they were already sprouted.
OH! I also put in 4 blueberry bushes. They when in last night. Two of them have some nice green growth on them and they should do ok, but I’m not too sure how the other 2 will do.
It seems to have been a few months since anything was posted. I’ll have to try to do a better job to post to the website and not let 3 months go by between posts.