It is 3:17 p.m. Yesterday I made Cherry Almond Donuts. I thought they tasted pretty good. I made twelve donuts with my donut pan. The donuts were baked not fried. The taste of almond in the donuts wasn’t too strong, and the dried cherries tasted just right along with the rest of the donut.

Not sure what else I’ll be making in the next week or so.

It is 9:42 p.m. Not sure what I’ll be making next week.

It is now 7:29 p.m. Quiet day today. Sunday I will be going over to my younger sister’s house in Hopkinton, MA. I got some nice presents for Christmas. Five gift cards, a pair of slipper socks, a nativity statue, and twenty dollars. I will be getting one more gift Sunday.

It is now 10:30 p.m. I had a nice Christmas. I ended up making Pinwheel Cookies. I made the dough for the Double Vanilla Sugar Cookies but ended up baking the Pinwheel Cookies only. I thought they came out great. My older sister liked them. So did her mother-in-law. My mother said she liked the Pinwheel Cookies I made years ago more than these cookies.

The Pinwheel Cookies weren’t too burnt and the chocolate and vanilla flavors were nicely balanced.

It is 9:56 p.m. I did not choose a recipe to cook this week. I watched an episode of The Pioneer Woman today on Food Network. It was very interesting. She can cook almost anything from scratch. I also like Molly Yeh and sometimes Ina Garten. Another great t.v. show is America’s Test Kitchen.

It’s been a while since I’ve cooked or baked anything. I got a cookbook that I gave my mother years ago, and she has given it back to me: Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters.

I really like reading articles on my cell phone about food, like the best cookbooks of 2019 and people’s favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. I try to eat healthier food.

A great website that’s gone is “Jessica’s Biscuit”. They had all kind of cookbooks on their website. I still like Amazon.com.

It is now 3:32 p.m. Christmas is a week away. I might make some cookies for the holiday instead of buying gifts. I was thinking of maybe making low fat sugar cookies and maybe Pinwheel Cookies.

I’m looking forward to Christmas. I’ve been reading some interesting articles on WordPress.

It is now 7:17 p.m. I just spent some time on WordPress. I checked out two interesting food blogs. I will try to cook more next week.

It is now 7:48 p.m. I didn’t choose a recipe to cook from this week. I don’t know if I’ll do any cooking at all except for easy things like heating soup from a can or heating up food in my microwave.

Christmas is coming soon. Looking forward to it. I read some interesting articles on WordPress.

It is 6:44 p.m. I tried to make quesadillas for dinner. I drained black peas, seasoned them with salt and pepper, added some chopped garlic and onions, spooned this on a tortilla, then added salsa and shredded cheese, then fried them. One of them came out okay, but the other quesadilla didn’t. Maybe I should have cooked the other quesadilla a little longer because of the garlic and onions. They tasted mostly okay.

I’m not sure yet what my next recipe should be.

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These are two photos of recipes I baked on Monday, Nov. 25 – Banana Walnut Breads and Blueberry Muffins. Both recipes are from “The New Boston Globe Cookbook.”