Been a couple days!

Not too much to report on the things-I-have-cooked front in the past little while. Most interesting was the pre-New year's bakefest: the afore-mentioned chocolate pecan tarts and their resultant leftover-filling-failure-cookies which became mmmKahluarumballs, and then the candy-cane-Toblerone blondies.

Tarts were okay -- not spectacular. I'm kind of unsurprised given that the chocolate I used wasn't exactly top-of-the-line. I probably didn't need to prebake the shells either. Next time I feel inspired to combine chocolate, nuts, butter, and flour in the most fattening way possible, I think I'll try a different recipe.

The rumballs were great, I thought. Dusted with icing sugar and they were just perfect.

The blondies, though, I could have eaten the whole tray of. Sweet, dense, fudgy in a non-chocolate sort of way. Just enough candy cane bits, and the Toblerone bits were just frequent enough -- and they did taste noticeably (and deliciously) different than the regular chocolate chips.

I ate far too many of them on New Year's -- the fact that I didn't have dinner didn't help. Well, "dinner" was cheese and crackers, chips, and mixed nuts. Which, by the way, it is far too easy to overindulge in when there is a whole table covered in them and nothing else to eat until 5:00 in the morning...

Then I was good the following day. Light breakfast at like 3 PM (sigh) and when I got home I whipped up some nice garlicky broccoli farfalle -- fried thinly sliced garlic first, then broccoli, tossed with pasta -- but unfortunately I added reserved pasta water after I'd added back the garlic, so it wasn't crispy. Next time I'll think first. ;)

Movie yesterday. Boston Pizza. Cajun rice bowl. Resounding "meh." Not worth the calories and I didn't even finish the rice. Between that and the popcorn and the alcoholic beverages, I feel like quite the fat fuck this morning -- oh well!

I get an opportunity to salvage some dignity and restore my confidence in my self-control today at Babcia's for lunch (lunch = lunch+dinner+calories for two days) so we shall see.

I have two nights left here to cook. Not sure about tomorrow but I think Tuesday will be PIEROGI MADNESS!