More baking

I've made the coconut-and-cashew cookies today. And the toffee-Brazil nut ones. Only that I used hazelnuts instead Brazil nuts because I got a 200-gram-bag of chopped hazelnuts from H. as part of my birthday gift, which spared me the effort of hand-chopping 100 grams of Brazil nuts. I really need to invest into a chopper; a good one. Chopping any kinds of nuts by hand takes forever and is a killer on the back.

Anyway, my cookies turned out very well (Mum approved of the samples) and half of them are boxed already. I love those recipes where the decoration happens before the baking, so as soon as the cookies are cooled they can be put away. For the other batch I'll have to brave the ladder and get my tin cookie boxes down from the highest shelf of the kitchen cupboard. I'll do it tomorrow when my legs aren't shaking from exhaustion; less chance to fall off the ladder that way. *g*

I also made a very cauliflower-heavy lunch today (noadvertising, close your eyes!): a cauliflower Strudel, and a vegetable soup based on the boiling water of said cauliflowers. So, counting in the leftover chicken paprikash from yesterday, I won't have to cook in the next two days, which is always a relief.

Surprisingly enough, the muse dropped by for a short visit, too. I'm well content with today's achievements.