{"id":357,"date":"2016-11-24T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/?p=357"},"modified":"2016-11-25T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:33:35","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thanksgiving\"Been a bit busy to post, with the holiday preparations.\u00c2\u00a0 I am hosting the family this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a HUGE gathering, but there are 7 adults, 2 just barely teens, and 4 kids.\u00c2\u00a0 This strains my seating arrangements since the 2 13 year olds and the oldest “kid” do not want to sit at anything called the “kids table”.\u00c2\u00a0 =)<\/p>\n

I tried to pare things down, but some how “we have to have that!” kept rearing its ugly head.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure its way too much food and I will probably be kicking myself when I have to find a way to fit leftovers in the fridge.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of developing new skills – I baked some cookies, and learned to make royal icing, and then decorated them with a flooding technique.\u00c2\u00a0 I just don’t bake much, and while this particular recipe and technique isn’t something a person would waste their time on in an emergency or TEOTWOWKI situation (I think this must have taken me about 4 hours to make the dough, frosting,\u00c2\u00a0bake, cool, and frost in stages), I do want to be more comfortable and less resentful of baking.<\/p>\n

\"thankscookies\"<\/p>\n

As you can see, mine don’t look professional like the ones on the left, and could have been tidier (I think I needed a smaller piping tip for my edging, but I used the smallest I had on hand), but overall, I was pleased with my first attempt at “flooding” cookies, especially since I don’t have any experience with ANY kind of cookie decorating =)<\/p>\n

Ironically, these cookies would be very easy to make using all food storage ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 And they taste just like pumpkin pie too.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the family will appreciate them.<\/p>\n

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Been a bit busy to post, with the holiday preparations.\u00c2\u00a0 I am hosting the family this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a HUGE gathering, but there are 7 adults, 2 just barely teens, and 4 kids.\u00c2\u00a0 This strains my seating arrangements since the 2 13 year olds and the oldest “kid” do not want to sit at anything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}