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I had kiefles, cake, and coffee for breakfast. (What? I didn't say it was good for me! But I did enjoy it.) The cake was left from yesterday, a really good chocolate cake that a client brought in, decorated with plastic snowflakes, snowmen, and Santa Clauses. (When I like a chocolate cake enough to have two pieces - even if it is over the course of two days it's really good. I think most chocolate cakes are dry and not very flavorful, but this was moist and tasted pretty chocolatey.) The kiefles were the best I've ever had and very fresh. One of the attorneys brought them in this morning - I think his wife baked them. And this is only the beginning... by the time we get to work on January 2, no one will have trouble sticking to that resolution to lay off the junk food, because we will have cookies, candy, cake, etc. coming out our ears. Today is just a slow trickle - but it has begun.
Why yes, we do get to to leave at 4:30 on December 31, have all of the 1st off - and then come back just for the 2nd - a Friday. I think they'd have done better giving us the Friday off as well, but. . . . I think we can expect it to be a slow day, anyway. Get everything tied up from 2008 that we can and ready to start the new year.
Kiefles are a Hungarian pastry, a largish cookie, actually, vaguely crescent shaped, that are pretty popular around here, especially at Christmas. They're a thin pastry (thinner than piecrust, certainly much thicker than phyllo and not layered like it, either) filled with a walnut filling. The recipes I looked at call for small curd cottage cheese, apricot jam, and chopped nuts. I never knew! And wouldn't have guessed, either. Then they're dusted with powdered sugar. Whatever's in them, they are yummy - and make a lovely breakfast. *g* (When I googled "kiefles" I kept getting an alternate spelling of "kiflis," which I've never seen before.)
PS - I did add a bit of cheese for protein.
PPS - Really, an all sugar breakfast is never the best idea. Within 45 minutes I kept wanting to doze off while manually fixing the formatting on a document that got screwed up yesterday. Fixing formatting is dull enough as it is without adding a mini carb-coma into the mess. But if there are homemade kiefles again tomorrow, you know I'll be having one. No, wait, I won't - I have a vacation day tomorrow. Yay!
Why yes, we do get to to leave at 4:30 on December 31, have all of the 1st off - and then come back just for the 2nd - a Friday. I think they'd have done better giving us the Friday off as well, but. . . . I think we can expect it to be a slow day, anyway. Get everything tied up from 2008 that we can and ready to start the new year.
Kiefles are a Hungarian pastry, a largish cookie, actually, vaguely crescent shaped, that are pretty popular around here, especially at Christmas. They're a thin pastry (thinner than piecrust, certainly much thicker than phyllo and not layered like it, either) filled with a walnut filling. The recipes I looked at call for small curd cottage cheese, apricot jam, and chopped nuts. I never knew! And wouldn't have guessed, either. Then they're dusted with powdered sugar. Whatever's in them, they are yummy - and make a lovely breakfast. *g* (When I googled "kiefles" I kept getting an alternate spelling of "kiflis," which I've never seen before.)
PS - I did add a bit of cheese for protein.
PPS - Really, an all sugar breakfast is never the best idea. Within 45 minutes I kept wanting to doze off while manually fixing the formatting on a document that got screwed up yesterday. Fixing formatting is dull enough as it is without adding a mini carb-coma into the mess. But if there are homemade kiefles again tomorrow, you know I'll be having one. No, wait, I won't - I have a vacation day tomorrow. Yay!