December 14: Food: Delicious Delights
Do you bake or cook Christmas gifts for friends and family? Do you fix a special recipe for the holiday meal? Do you have a favorite treat you enjoy during the holidays?
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
―Peg Bracken
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My Take on Holiday Treats
My sister-in-law, Cindy loves to bake. The other day she started at 10:00 in the morning and finished MOPPING THE FLOOR at 7:00 pm. How did I get so lucky? She gave me some cookies to serve my guests for dinner earlier this week. These two cookies were especially great.
Cindy substituted skittles and a bit of white frosting for the cinnamon hots that the recipe called for. That was an unexpected bonus.
I got this tidbit from Cindy Georgakas. Did you know that STRESSED spelled backward spells DESSERTS?
““Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich”
Even though I got this picture and recipe from Pinterest, my grandmother made this every Christmas and I think I ate most of it.
I loved creamed corn so much that I put a can of it in a chocolate cake mix once and baked it. I probably told you how that came out. In my defense, I was only 43.
Grandma’s recipe, like this one by the Unsophisticook recipe, had 6 items: canned whole kernel corn, canned creamed corn, sugar, flour, eggs, and butter, plus a touch of salt and pepper. I think I used brown sugar rather than white. I may have added mustard powder – don’t ask me why. One recipe called for a package of cornbread. That would be good but not as pudding-like.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all. What are your favorite holiday foods?
Random Question
Do you edit your posts after they are published?
Play Along with WQW
We are almost at the end of 2022, our second year of Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays. I hope you have a wonderful week. If you want to play along with Writer’s Quotes Wednesday, create a post about the topic of food for the holiday, find a quote or quotes that you like, and link your post to my post. I may have to steal some of your great quotes and edit my post.
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