How could I have let this slip by me? Did you know that last Friday was national cookie day? I love, love, love a good cookie. Not too crisp…well unless it’s a biscotti made for dunking… a little chewy and loaded with stuff, good stuff!
The English word “cookie” is derived from the Dutch work “koekje” meaning little cake. Dutch bakers used to test oven temperatures on small amounts of batter, so that they wouldn’t waste it all if the temperature was not just right. Soon they learned that these little morsels were pretty delicious!
Hopefully these ingredients and some inspiration…
will turn into this!
This is absolutely hands down, one of the highlights of being with my sister at Christmas…is all the baking that we do! Are you getting the recipes in order my sister dear? With Christmas falling in the middle of the week, you should get some extra baking time in! I am very disappointed to say that I won’t be there in time for our baking adventures since I arrive early Christmas Eve morning. So instead it will be the time to ready for the feast of the 7 fishes.
AlleyCat has been very mischevious lately! I keep telling her that Santa Kitty will not be leaving her anything in her stocking…but I don’t think that she believes me!
We are expecting a big rainstorm, so I will be staying in and stitching all day, wrapping gifts and finishing my Christmas cards. Ho! Ho! Ho!
and until next time…keep on stitching
Ummmm, cookies! We have several flats of persimmons from a friend who grows the trees on his Napa property. We’ve been baking a LOT of persimmon loaves! Maybe we’ll switch to persimmon cookies? My No Cal town has been spared most of the awfulness of the storm, but other cities have reported imminent flooding. Stay warm and dry!
persimmions! sound wonderful…yes we both need to stay dry!