I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
On Thursday night, we had our quarterly home, family, and personal enrichment night at the church and I made seven dozen cupcakes and little goody bags to go at each place setting for our dinner. Our enrichment leader, Wanda, chose a purse theme for the evening (for home, family and PURSE-onal enrichment), and it was a lot of fun to decorate and plan around. We had an excellent salad bar where about 30 women brought some of their favorite ingredients for the ultimate salad, and there were about 50 who attended. I hope it was a nice, uplifting evening for everyone. I think it went well. Now our committee gets to have a little break until the next one in June.
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I was planning on coming, and then I came down with something Wednesday and Thursday. I thought it was the flu, I felt so horrible. It seems to have turned into a normal cold, though, thank goodness. I'm so upset, I keep missing the quarterly enrichment meetings!! Next one, for SURE! (Unless I'm in Houston getting my transplant).
Our RS birthday dinner is tonight. Julie and I are both providing the place settings for 2 tables plus bringing cakes. Julie is making a most divine from-scratch chocolate/Nutella cake and I am making a (scratch of course) scrumptious lemon cake....Yummmm!