{"id":1081,"date":"2008-12-17T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2008-12-17T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T19:34:48","slug":"christmas-is-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"christmas is delicious."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made <a href=\"http:\/\/orangette.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/look-at-that.html\" target=\"_blank\">Three-Layer Peppermint Bark<\/a> last night to hand out to people at Christmas, and it was spectacular. It&#8217;s the perfect amount of minty, and the ganache layer softens up if it sits out for a while. It&#8217;s really like the best thin mint in the world. Good-quality chocolate is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I want to bake all the time when it&#8217;s so crappy outside. Not cook, because that&#8217;s Matt&#8217;s area of expertise. I like the exactitude and the attention-to-detail required with baking (or candymaking, which is like baking without the oven). And this is the best time of year for it, because there are always a hundred opportunities to hand out good things I made.<\/p>\n<p>I also stocked up on the ingredients for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/emeril-lagasse\/pumpkin-cheesecake-with-bourbon-spiked-cream-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">pumpkin cheesecake<\/a> I&#8217;ll be bringing to Matt&#8217;s parents for Christmas, and will find time to make that next week. How the hell did I ever live without my stand mixer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made Three-Layer Peppermint Bark last night to hand out to people at Christmas, and it was spectacular. It&#8217;s the perfect amount of minty, and the ganache layer softens up if it sits out for a while. It&#8217;s really like the best thin mint in the world. Good-quality chocolate is worth it. I want to &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=1081\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}