It must be the season change

I'm still up and I'm awake. Why? Well for some reason I've been craving sweets. The urge to nest. It's fall the weather is getting cooler and I want comfort food. A couple of things are hanging me back. I went to Walmart for groceries. Just staples, but I know that I can get leeks there. Well guess what? They were out of leeks. What everyone else had the urge to make French Provencal soup with pistou? So, I need to head out to Kroger's or Publix and get some there. While I was at Wallyworld, I did pick up a couple of quarts of whipping cream. I have been dreaming about caramels. I see all these candy apples and I start to drool.

I made chocloate cookies with kisses on them this weekend, and today I made expresso caramels. I also found out the new candy thermometer I bought at Wallyworld is off by 20 degrees. No wonder my caramels were way too soft. No hard ball stage here. I decided screw that, and used my digital meat thermometer. I started again. This time I made caramels from a recipe a CA coworker had given me. Lady Lois's Irresistible Caramels. Honest to God that's the name, and boy those caramels were yummy. They were her mom's recipe and she had her mom write them out for me, and mail it. I spent an hour cooking them, and now they are cooling in a pan overnight. I'll post photos of them tomorrow.

I definitely need to get another digital thermometer that is more convenient than the one I have. But anyways I digress. I was looking at the food blogs on my feeder, and the ones with new posts have desserts posted. Blondies or Hello Dolly's, frosting, and stuff. We are all testing our recipes for the holidays I guess.

I have to start shopping around and looking for containers to hold my homemade diet killers. Also need to order dried lavender for sachets and such. It looks like Goof is gonna take time off this Christmas and we can all fly out to CA. Well except the dogs. They are gonna be kenneled. I don't know if we would be able to take both on the flight, and I'm certainly not willing to put them in cargo.