Let the Baking Begin!

 

With Thanksgiving behind us, we shall regroup, right? Begin planning early this morning on what December is going to look like when it gets here shortly. Coordination is the key. All we have to do is figure out who’s coming when and that will be the most help in figuring out what we need to have done before Christmas. A simple task. However, and this is the big however, everyone we’re maybe expecting to show up will have the same problem: Am I a host, a guest, or a Surprise!

 

It all depends, I think, on who’s cooking. We might not be anymore. Families have changed, with the old cooks resting on their laurels or just plain resting. They may be too tired to cook anymore for a crowd. But some of us are not too tired to pull out a couple of the good old recipes we have in our head. When my mother in law passed away, some folks asked me to put together a cook book of her old recipes. However, almost every recipe she had in her little recipe box that looks like a house has someone else’s name on it. They were recipes she’d gotten from other cooks. But I think if I cooked one of them, it would taste like the original cook’s recipe but not Onie’s. She always added or subtracted ingredients at her choice so they came out distinctively hers. But she didn’t write down how she altered them.

 

I am a cookie baker first and  foremost. I love baking cookies, it’s both comfort and goodies together. Not hosting big gatherings as we used to for holidays, I am however filling my freezer with cookies that will go somewhere. I have to freeze them or I snack on them, but they call my name even from the freezer. I am one of my most often consumers for cookies, right behind my grandsons. 

 

So plan as you can starting December. Remember to love, be flexible and care to share. It’s Christmas time and we’re off to a good start with freezing rain and snow in a few forecasts. Off we go!