Sweetness

The world needs sweetening today, I say. Thus, I made two kinds of holiday candy. If you care for the recipes, check out the King Arthur site. I pretty much followed their recipes for “peppermint crunch bark” and “dark chocolate buttercrunch”-(which is really an English Toffee recipe).

In addition to cooking sweets, I will be ever so sweet to everyone I encounter today. Now, there's a good chance that the only people I see today will be my husband and the clerk at Casey's General Store. Being Sunday, there will be no mail delivery, no chance of the FedEx or UPS guy dropping off a package, and we'll be home watching football for the better part of the afternoon. Although, there is an outside chance a neighbor will drop by, as country folk have a propensity to just drop by. More than once the doorbell has rung with a neighbor saying, "I saw your car in the driveway," or "I saw your lights on." If so, I will greet them with sweetness. Maybe I'll make an offer of bread, cookies and tea, or pizza, candy and wine, depending on the hour.

I had to work quickly this morning because I must make a quick trip to the store and be back before the Bears/Packers kickoff at noon. I still have two loaves of bread and a batch of pizza dough to make today, but I can make those while listening to the game on a Chicago sports radio station. The radio announcers do a much better job than the television announcers, who tend to be biased against the Bears. If there is an interesting play I can dash into the room where my husband is watching the televised version and see it since the TV airplay is on about a 5 second delay.

Peppermint Crunch Bark

English Toffee

Have a sweet day!

(Did you know Chicago Bear Walter Peyton (R.I.P.) got his nickname because his demeanor on and off the football field was so different. Obviously, he was rough on-field and would just as soon stiff-arm you as look at you. The contrast with his sweet off-field personality earned him the nickname, "Sweetness". - Suuweeet, how I worked the word different into this posting.)