When I dropped Carrie off in the morning I also ran into Brandy, who sadly is pretty sick. She said that she really liked the way her website looked, but wondered if the center box area could look more velvety? I said I could probably manage that.
I did take a break from BF Workshop work to pick Carrie up from work and have lunch with her here (cheese enchiladas).
When I picked her up from work the plan was to go home and make candy cane cookies. But Carrie was so tired that she really needed to take a bit of a nap. So I made the dough entirely on my own. I'm getting pretty good at that. Carrie woke up and helped me shape the dough into candy cane shapes and we baked one batch of them.
They turned out very nicely. They have a nice, subtle mint flavor to them, and they're not too sweet.
After making that first batch we drove down to Point Defiance to celebrate Florentine's Birthday Dinner at Anthony's Home Port. Oddly enough, even though they had lobter tail, it wasn't on the menu. Huh. We gave her her presents (a snowman tin full of Lindor chocolates; a penguin mug; a red-and-black bracelet) and all ate yommy foodstuffs. She had lobster tail, of course. Carrie had a crab fetuccini. I had London broil (yes, I went to a seafood restaurant and had beef—don't judge me). Florentine & I split a bottle of wine; Carrie & Jim had beers. Grandma K didn't have any hooch.
After dinner we came back here and cooked up the rest of the candy cane cookies. For some reason there was a little bit more red dough than white dough, so the last candy cane we made came out all red. If you look really closely at the photo up there (click it for a larger version) you can probably see it.
