That's my freezer, almost full of cookies. Time to slow way down on the baking. (Just the buckeyes and date cookies to go - the cutout cookies got ditched as too much trouble, and replaced with some almond thingies the husbeast requested.)
The advantage to doing this, which I forget every year, is that by the time Christmas actually gets here, I'm so sick of sweets, I'm not at all tempted by them, and load up on protein instead. (And while fattening, turkey and steak just aren't on the same level of fat as butter cookies and chocolate.)
Now I need to finish this scarf. Whee, knitting! I've missed knitting, with all this baking going on.
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That's a nice looking freezer and all...so neat and full of yummy goodness.
But, um...where do you keep the frozen pepperoni pizza? Do you have another freezer? And what about the empty Hot Pocket boxes? Doesn't everyone have those? Am I alone here???
Annie I was having similar thoughts! My freezer is crammed full of chicken stock and freezer bags of meat. This must be your spare freezer Julie?
Isn't it great getting a window into other people's lives? We should all post pictures of what our freezers look like, to get a look at the hidden sides of our lives. LOL!
Good work, by the way. I figured out I have to do hardly any christmas baking this week now. The friend I'm visiting has done loads and the four of us just won't eat that many biscuits!
ps is that how the red and green sugar comes out? Cool idea!
If you look closely, under the pile of cookies, there IS a frozen pizza. And generally I clear out the freezer (make sure we eat the meat, etc) starting around Thanksgiving, to make sure there's room for the ten million cookies. By next month it'll be loaded up with frozen dinners and steaks again.
Yes, that's how the red and green sugar turns out. Those are Snickerdoodles - kind of a sugar cookie with cinnamon and nutmeg, then rolled in the colored sugar and baked. (Usually you use regular sugar, but it's the holidays.)
I once read a tongue-in-cheek psychology article about how you could do a kind of ink-blot personality test by the contents of someone's freezer. I suspect you could also do it with the contents of their purse, or their desk. Or, as the case may be, their knitting bag.
I'm thinking you put all your cookies in a big grocery bag, went down to the local Sears appliance department and borrowed a fridge for the photo shoot.
bells said...
"We should all post pictures of what our freezers look like, to get a look at the hidden sides of our lives. LOL!"
Oh, dear. How about I post the picture of the 5 cubic foot one that is full of Christmas eve chowder ingredients? Then you'll all think I live in a house that eats lobster and scallops, and keeps saffron and oplatki stored in the freezer.
Not the "real" freezer, which is the same size & shape as Julie's, but looks, ahhhhhhhhh, way more lived in. Yeah, that's it, lived in.
Hah!
And april said
"I'm thinking you put all your cookies in a big grocery bag, went down to the local Sears appliance department and borrowed a fridge for the photo shoot."
There you go, I could do that.
Remember, we've only lived here two years, not long enough to really accumulate any good freezer life-forms. And the fridge is new.
If only I had a picture from our freezer in the old place... We had a 'lucky ham roast' that we'd bought the first week we'd been in Hawaii, and had moved it from place to place. It was ten years old when we finally pitched it.
The total neatness of your freezer has me dazed. I don't have a single section of my home, at all, that is that well organized. And it's organized with stuff you baked. I'm so blown away I'm almost in tears.
Ooops... it looks like I should have read the other comments first... but now I'm cracking up over 'Lucky Ham Roast' because we've had the 'dream on frozen broccoli' and 'mystery ice-cream treat' for an unspecified period of time as well...
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