What do you do when you have a cold? Curl up on the couch with some knitting, tea, and bad TV? That would be nice, but every time you sit down your ability to breath is reduced by 75%. Stand in front of the TV and try to knit and drink tea? Can't say that I'm coordinated enough to do that.

So I decided it would be a baking day. I'd be up on my feet which would help keep my head clear, and would be in the kitchen with the oven on which would keep me warm. But what to bake?

For x-mas, my mom got me the book Great Cookies. I went through the book and tagged all of the cookies that I thought sounded yummy and that I wanted to try. I tagged probably about 60 of the 200 cookies (I tried not to tag cookies that are typical, like chocolate chips, I wanted to explore some other cookies). Of course, I couldn't pick from that list, so this weekend Kevin picked his top 3 of the ones I picked and then we got the ingredients when at the grocery store.

I decided to make the huge lemon cookies. The cookie is very soft and cakey (uses cake flour) and iced with lemon icing.

Do you want one??? They are delicious!!! Perfectly lemony and not too sweet.

Then I decided that while the dough for the cookies was chilling that I should make something in another x-mas gift from my mom, a baking dish with matching basket. The baking dish came with a hershey's recipe book, so I found a recipe for coconut macaroon bars that I had all the ingredients for (except the chocolate). So I made that.

I haven't tasted it yet because the instructions said to allow it to cool to room temp and then cover and wait at least 8 hours before cutting. Thank god I made the cookies too!!

Then I decided to whip up a bread dough because I had the stand mixer out and all of the ingredients. (Sorry no picture).

Finally, I decided (because I had 3 egg yolks and nothing for them to do) to make some pasta for dinner.

I didn't really have a recipe for this. I used about 155 grams of Italian 00 flour, 3 egg yolks, a big splash of milk, a smaller splash of olive oil, and viola! pasta.

And here's the pasta supplementing the last of the yummy braised beef from Sunday.

On schedule for today... that sitting on the couch plan since I can mostly breath while not 100% vertical.