Today I was doing my Sunday cooking for the week. Sunday is my prep day for the week since I have some dietary needs and have to basically cook/bake anything I want to eat.
So, as I am making a zucchini quiche and double chocolate cookies, and I am dripping with sweat being that the oven was on and it is 80 degrees outside with no air conditioner! Which lead me to remember a funny story from my childhood.
My parents would take us out camping in the summer for weekend vacations as well as a week long vacation. I was about 8 years old and my grandparents would also camp periodically with us. My grandmother this particular weekend thought it would be fun to bake cookies with my sister and me. Of course, we loved spending time in the kitchen and baking or cooking anything!
This was summer and probably about the same hot weather as today is. Plus, we were camping! Who really wants to bake in a small, hot camper (this is before air conditioners in the campers) when you could run and play outside and enjoy the great outdoors! Besides that was the purpose we camped.
So my sister and I did make the cookie dough and I believe they were cut out cookies. As soon as the dough was made and the cookies were cut out, my sister and I scurried out of the camper leaving my poor grandmother to roast in that sauna of acamper!
If I remember correctly, she emerged from the camper dripping with sweat just as I am now!
I love and miss you Nana D.
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