Misfits day mostly good

 Misfits box arrived today, this morning, several hours earlier than expected. Usually I think I'm the last stop of the day in this area.  Only one minor problem, a dented can, which they're attending to now after I sent them a pathetic picture of it. 

Today, the cornucopia includes a couple of pomegranates, first I've had in years, and I'll have to review how to eat them.  And what looked like more potatoes than I'd ordered, but I can deal with them.

Fnally the mushrooms showed up, so there will be soup in the near future.  And I invested in some more of that Aurora Mills wholewheat flour, this time pastry flour, to see how it goes.  I plan to pickle some of the red cabbage you see there, also some of the red onions. So see what happens to the skins, etc., go to Red veggie future

And here's tonight's salad in the works, celery, carrots, oakleaf lettuce, scallions, sliced dates.  Isn't that a lovely box design for the dates?

Since the box arrived early, this setup had to wait its turn in the wings, and it's now baked and about to emerge.  It's the Giant Cookie, for Thanksgiving.  Since I don't know what day that will be for Handsome Son and me, except certainly not Thursday, I thought I'd better get ahead of things and bake it now.

Like this

It smells excellent. This one I made with Gold Medal flour, less soft than the White Lily I used last time, so we'll see how it works.

Victory cookie

 It's the biggest cookie in the world, and I think we've earned it.

As usual I had to sub, no chocolate chips, so chopped walnuts. And I added in a teaspoon of lime zest, from misfit organic limes, just to see.

I'm using a white flour which I never had before lockdown when I had to order online. It's a southern product, probably a different wheat, much softer than the other ap flour common here. And this cookie has a fine crust and soft inside, I'm guessing because of the flour. It's White Lily, works for desserts,  too fluffy for bread. I expect it makes great biscuits.

This recipe said 18+ minutes, but using these ingredients, nearer 25. 

It smells heavenly.

And here's the cook's privilege, first wedge. It's gone now. This is pretty rich and sweet. This size wedge is plenty. 

Hooray for us! We saved the republic, that is not an exaggeration. We earned a cookie.