Happy Christmas Eve everyone. Like many of you, I still had a to-do list to accomplish today to be ready for Christmas Day, but by 3:00pm things were pretty well under control and I was ready to assemble my sweet potato casserole, to be baked at my daughter's house tomorrow morning. Contrary to what yesterday's blog might make you think, I don't procrastinate on everything. Two weeks ago, after checking for ingredients in my cupboard (it's not big enough to qualify as a pantry) I bought everything I needed for the casserole during a regular grocery run. Imagine my dismay this afternoon when I was putting the ingredients out on the counter, to discover that the soft bag that I had thought was brown sugar, by feel, was actually flour in a brown bag. After digging deeper I found one bag of rock hard brown sugar and one more carefully wrapped bag of brown sugar that I had layered first in a zip lock bag and then put inside a square glass cannister with a tight sealing lid. It too was rock hard, but had also assumed the shape of the container and could not be removed. The amount in the simple bag looked like it might be enough for the recipe except for the rock hard condition. So naturally I turned to Google for help. The first suggestion to soften brown sugar (there was a long list) had something to do with an apple and a four day wait. Well, that was no help, so I dug a little deeper and struck gold (metaphorically speaking). The instructions said to put the brown sugar in a microwave proof bowl, cover it with a moist paper towel and heat it it for 10 seconds, then repeat as necessary. In 20 seconds total my brown sugar was soft and usable. I was so excited to have nice soft brown sugar that I dumped the whole bowl full in my mixing bowl without measuring, so the casserole may be a little too sweet tomorrow, but I doubt if I'll hear any complaints. Merry Christmas everyone.
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