Week 10: Christmas Goodies

It's December and we are getting closer and closer to Christmas. Growing up my grandma and my mom would usually start baking the 2nd week of December. At grandma's house she would always have fudge, divinity and peanut brittle. She has children and grandchildren scattered throughout the United States and that was her gift to them. She would fill the shoe boxes with candies and wrap them in pretty paper and then in a brown paper bag. She also loved the cut out sugar cookies. My daughter came home on December 10th from college. We spent hours in the kitchen the whole week baking all sorts of things. Here is a list of them: chocolate fudge, peppermint fudge, peanut butter fudge, cream cheese cookies, peanut brittle, coconut snowball cookies, cranberry almond biscotti, and raspberry gumdrops. All were amazingly good. Just spending time with my daughter was such a blessing. My son contributed some, mostly taste testing. Hey, it is an important job. Hope you are enjoying time in the kitchen this holiday season, maybe with someone you love. Memories like that are to be cherished a lifetime.