Baking Breakthrough

As most of you know I started a foodie blog in October. Well, that is where it has stayed... in October. I haven't posted something in all 22 days we have been in November. Whoops. I have just been sooooo busy. Well life is finally slowing down, and I'm hoping that this means I will be able to start making/baking fun things in the kitchen again. This past week I needed to get two books at the local library for class. I decided to try out the larger library downtown. They did have my books, but they were arranged in the old system and it took me forever to find them. While I was looking I stumbled upon the cookbook section. WHAT! There is a cookbook section?Well of course there is, I just never thought about it. Needless to say my quick visit turned into about two hours; but, I left a happier girl than when I arrived. It was very hard, but I limited myself to 4 cookbooks. Joe was just as surprised as I was by the prospect of a cookbook section and went the next day to get some more. We have so many new recipes to try. Friday we were planning to decorate our apartment for Christmas and enjoy our favorite french onion soup (a weinberger staple). I was really in the mood to try a recipe from the baking book I got- so, I decided to bake sugar cookies with almond royal icing. Yum! They turned out fantastic. Joe said it was the best thing I have ever baked. This week we are full on thanksgiving!! My parents are coming in today. I am going to Houston tomorrow night, and Joe is meeting me there on wednesday. I love thanksgiving, and we are so looking forward to sharing our first together and with all of our wonderful family. This weekend was quite exciting here in Aggieland, and I will blog about that later.