I'll start this with the end result- I am tempted to change my color names for the rest of December to cookie and candy names....
A week ago I was recovering from a nasty flu/pneumonia type thing and my wife says, "Hey- we should go through the cookbooks and pick out 12 different cookie types to make and deliver to our friends!" (she was thinking 12 disciples - 12 cookies) Of course, in my Theraflu/NyQuil fog, I said, "sounds great".
So fast forward a week or so and here we've been making all these cookies...OH! I mean getting instruction from my wife on measuring, the finer aspects of this like the difference of "folding" versus nitro speed on the mixer, etc.) ya know- the finer points I guess (and she really did let me use the mixer- I told her it was the closest thing to a power tool in the kitchen, and dang that thing is powerful- I never paid attention!)
..keep in mind I LOVE cooking and especially barbequeing, but when the Lord handed out the baking gene, I was not present. I must have been gone fishing. Anyway, this "let's make some cookies for our friends" has evolved into 3 days of baking school for me, and we are now going out in the community next week and handing them out to anyone we drive past and seems like they could use a hug and some Christmas cheer. It will be interesting and I am sure rewarding, and I can not wait to see how it goes!
So here's my thing- As we have made all kinds of things with so many colors and flavors, like chocolate, peppermint, butterscotch, almond, toffee, you name it, I of course have had to sample each, you know, to make aure they are safe for folks to eat of course
and I started thinking how true it is the old adage about the fastest way to a man's heart being through his stomach. (and as I type this I can smell a house with lots of baking love wafting through the air) So I thought, why not combine the goodness of these flavors and colors with our other passion- FISHING!
So sorry for the long story, but so far some of the colors(flavors), I am thinking:
-Butterscotch- (Microspoons' wife nailed that one already of course!)
-Peppermint- old school red and white is a staple!
-Almond Bar-(around here we attach cut sardine or even tuna to our salmon rigs and the color is actually somewhat close to these almond bar things we made yesterday)
-Marbled Brownie-(Mayfly dominant with a pearl swirl with holo flake mixed in)
-Orange/Cranberry pecan Bar- (those are one of my favorites so far) -good ole' fluorescent orange with hot pink, 50/50 laminated with copper or gold flake... (the fish will hit that just to be able to come out of the water and see the crazy guy who would throw it)
I could just keep going but I think you can see my wife has got my head really in the clouds here, and I thought hey, what's there to lose?
:D:D
Anyone have the guts to add anything here?
Merry Christmas to my fellow fishing/tackle making friends.
-Shawn
