On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:37:09 -0800, Terry Pulliam Burd
> wrote:

>I went to the market today to do as much do-ahead grocery shopping as
>I could in preparation for Christmas Day dinner. I'll do a Friday
>swoop-and-grab for perishables on Friday on the way home from work and
>if Friday's expedition is as unsuccessful as today's, I'd better plan

(snip)

>such as martini olives. And the wafer cookies? They had by my count 6
>types of Oreo cookies and perhaps twice that many chocolate chip
>cookies, yet no chocolate wafer cookies, which are pretty basic, IMHO.
>And doesn't anyone make instant coffee anymore? The stuff that has the
>consistency of dust? I have a mocha torte that requires a small
>quantity of instant coffee and I know from prior experience that the
>coffee *crystals* don't dissolve at all well in the batter*. And the

Just dissolve the coffee crystals in a little hot water, and then put
that into the recipe...