Break time - with a quick bite of lunch......

gayle-mo

gayle-mo

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I'm making toffee and will start on caramel when I'm done. My daughter's been getting calls and emails about the candy and warned me that there were lots of people interested. Scares me!

I always feel like what I make won't be up to someone's standards. Anyone else do that? Makes me just a little nervous, even though I'm comfortable in my candy making abilities.

Popped a pan of nachos into the oven as that was the only quick thing I could come up with. They're about gone so better get back to work.

Anyone have anything exciting going on???? Be back next break time to check! ha

*poof*!

 
you are amazing! is all this candy being given away, or is it a fund raiser? You have inspired me

to make some of the toffee and last year's peanut brittle and the Dr Pepper brittle and your Scotch kisses for the company thanksgiving lunch. A nice tray of homemade candy would be a nice change. I am woefully candymaking challenged, so this would be a test for me. I did pretty well with the peanut brittle last year.

 
Around here I worry more about dog hair ending up in things I take to other people

then other people's perception of how well I cooked it. Also worry about it being 80 degrees & humid in December when I decide to make Christmas candy.

 
Good for you, Ang! It's not hard but might be alittle intimidating....

Just make sure you have an accurate thermometer!

GO for it, girl!

I let my daughter talk me into renting a space for her work's Christmas Extravaganza so minus the expenses, the proceeds will be mine. I've spent lots of money. LOTS. Pray it sells!

 
Melissa, I lived in Texas when I was young....

in Arlington, to be exact, and that's where I really got into candy making! (Pralines were my 1st venture away from fudges and divinity) I never had any trouble making any candy there in the winter.

Our dog was a schnauzer because I don't do dog hair. I don't know why they don't shed, but they don't. Lexi died on Sept 1, though so I wouldn't have to worry if she had shed. smileys/frown.gif

My husband has been pretty much banned from the kitchen the last week. At first he got a little upset because he'd want to walk by and want to look (taste, touch...etc...) I don't even touch my candy with ungloved hands and didn't want him near it so so he got tired of being yelled at! ha (He stays away, now...and has been really good to grab takeout this last week for the most part)

I'm sure people are happy with anything you take!

 
Beautiful Belgian Sheepdog & large part-chow mutt. LOTS of hair. I've had divinity

end up sticky when it was humid-but I think most of the time as long as you use a thermometer you're o.k. I think candy just doesn't keep as well/gets sticky in storage. One of my cousins (who works here in the office with me) grew up in Arlington (or more properly Pantego).

 
When I make pralines I kick everybody out of the house so they can't report on my angst!!

read *&&*!@%!!** AARRGGHHH

 
I always worry when I'm cooking for someone else. Even though I know rationally that it always goes

well, if not perfect, I worry myself sick sometimes. Perfectionism is a disease!

 
Hey Ang, thanks! Already got that covered! smileys/smile.gif

I have tons of each candy already diced into small but lovely bites, ready to hook an unsuspecting browser! heheheeeeeeee (sinister laugh eroding into a roar........!!!!!!!) haha

I'm still up! It's 1:15 and I still have cinnamon candy to bag up. Made 2 batches of caramel and maybe, just maybe, one more before I head to bed.

My hands are so darned tired of writing out the tags! Each item has to have a tag with the table number, description and price.

I hope to be in bed by 3! haha

 
Storage? What's storage???????

Around my house it never lasts that long. If I can get it packaged before my DH eats it I might be able to share some with friends. Maybe.

DH has quite a sweet tooth but I can barely stand to look at candy at the moment!!!


I see what you mean by dog hair!! Bet bath time is fun at your house! smileys/smile.gif

 
It is, Joe. I'm doing very well at overcoming it, too. smileys/smile.gif

I learned to say...Okay....whatever I get done, I get done. Whatever I don't doesn't matter. It will be good enough. And it always is.

Really.

I try really hard to believe that!

Sometimes it even works! smileys/wink.gif

 
Oh, Marilyn!!! Did it catch my FUDGE DISASTER about 5 pm???

YES!!!!!!!! It happened!

A batch of Chocolate Buttercream failed! The butter didn't get mixed in even though I did it just the same as I always do!

Just one of those weird things that happens once every few years or so. (actually, I think it'd been 10 years on this fudge since I'd had it do that)

All that chocolate. All that BUTTER. A whole pound. DH took a spoonful and ate it. Thought I might try rolling it in balls and making a new confection with it, but not now. I've got candy to MAKE!!!!!!!!!

Pray for me. I'll get done what I can, take the rest of my ingredients with me so I can make more at my daughter's house and not worry about what doesn't get done.

It won't be much, though. I've nearly used all my ingredients up. smileys/wink.gif Maybe I'll buy more......heheheheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 
Praise the Lard, there is a Candy God. Thank you for sharing this faux pas and giving HOPE to

all of us candy-challenged individuals. We have feelings too.

 
: ) I've had 2 now. A batch of peanut butter fudge. Time to quit, I think!

I got to bed at 3:20. Up and atem at 8:30. I'm packing up, moving out and leaving the MESS behind. No time to clean now.

I'm going to regret this when I come home.

Bye all!


PS 2 out of 50 batches isn't too bad. It could have been worse! smileys/smile.gif

 
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