T Stands for Tuesday & a Look Into my Kitchen

 Hi everyone, Wow can you believe we are a week away from Christmas, and today (Sunday) first day of Hanukkah already??

  I am posting a bit early again for T where we gather over at Bleubeard and Elizabeths and also share a drink related photo-find link in my side bar.

 Sunday was very cold still but we had lots of sunshine. I baked up lots of cut out cookies and in the early evening I worked up 2 pounds of dark chocolate bark-my back is screaming at me to stop already haha.  Hoping tomorrow is a sunny day as well so I can get the brittles made. and then I am done for now, and will call up our friends that I am gifting most of this to, for them to come up for a visit and take home their goodies. I won't get the dipped chocolates done before then, I will make those around New Year's and share with our new neighbor friends that lovessss dark chocolate anything. 

  I dug out the vintage very large board that was a wedding present from my brother (who sorry to say no longer speaks to us-sad) that I just love and is perfect for the roll out cookies. I have always had a very small kitchen with few places to work-so this board fits perfectly on top of the marble that sits on an island that my husband made for me years ago.

  Here are a few photos

  Of course I have a Huge collection of cookie cutters vintage to new, cookie stamps, cookie molds along with a collection of vintage wooden rolling pins-that I love using.

  The first two photos are for the gingerbread cookies

These are for the sugar cut out cookies

These reindeer are peanut butter cut out cookies-so good

Gingerbread boys and girls

These below are gluten free gingerbread-and I grabbed my bison, wolf and other animal cutters, and only cut two pairs of gingerbread people

I will put a plain frosting on these cookies, along with the batch of the sugar cut outs. I have never been great at making pretty cookies, never tried piping-so these will be pretty simple

Dark chocolate barks-I worked up two pounds in small batches to make several different toppings I ended up with six different toppings

pistachio and dried fruits

walnuts and fruitcake mixed fruits

This one below is all different fruitcake fruits for Larry-no nuts

How about those KC Chiefs? Very exciting game this week for sure-I didn't have a new drink photo for this week so re sharing my hot cocoa in the chiefs mug. I will be making me up more hot cocoa for sure this coming week-we are going down to 0 degrees f or lower this week

Since my post is already really long I will share my happy mail Christmas cards in another post. Thank you everyone that had send me a card 

    Happy T everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah