overdose of cookies

my goodness ... went shopping for clothes today and i couldn't wear so many things!

 

1. free size ain't free size to me =(

2. "sorry mam, we are out of XL" (should i take comfort in that fact other people are also buying XL?)

3. clothes that look good on mannequins, that has my size, makes me look like a PREGNANT woman ...

 

*argh* this comes from gorging on the CNY goodies i guess =(

 

anyway yesterday went home and made somemore cookies with my sister and my auntie (my cousin and bro helped out too). Rascal was busy vacumming the floor and hence he had diahorrea this morning. Serves him right, but poor me, I had to clean up all the goo!

 

We tried a few recipes - the peanut cookies (but taste different - must rem wat my hubby add to the ingredients!), Sugee/ Semolina cookies (so so), Almond cookies (adapted from Skinny Epicurean's Cashew Cookies - not that fantastic *sigh* guess it doesn't work with almonds. We figured it will taste nice with those red and green cherries - experiment another time and let you know), my mum's sugi biscuits (which is vegetarian since no egg is used). We also dug out some of her older recipes and will try another time. It was VERY tiring cuz turns out most of the baking equipment at my mum's place is MIA, so i had to drive all the way home and pick up my mixer (the smaller kenwood) as well as my baking sheets, mixing bowls, flour shifter, etc ... I'm not leaving anything to chance since I don't want to drive to and fro (even though it's a 15 min drive away).

 

The best of the lot? My mum's sugi biscuits - plain sugi or with almonds. We decided not to waste my almonds and quicky toasted and coarsely chopped them, then add to the remaining sugi dough. The moment I held the Sugi dough in my hand, I went "this feels like it man! That sugi I used to eat!" When we were kids, we helped out with the rolling of the balls, and poking it with a chopsticks. We weren't allowed to eggwash the cookies :P

 

We took only a few pics (think my cousin) and i was already quite shack ... in fact, after everything was done and 80% was washed and cleaned, I flop unto the sofa and slept till my hubby came to pick me up (about an hour). I am still so sleepy. Going to call it a night and I'm looking forward to Friday - not for CNY but cuz they are making carrot / yam cakes! another of my FAVOURITES *slurp*