Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

One more from edaville

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Edaville railroad

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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Ghosts of Christmas Past

My Nonna used to make these cookies by the dozens. Baking as memory as familial history as tradition. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Joe froggers a classic american cookie

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

pfeffernuse before & after

It only took 5 tries to get the blackberry to spell the name of these German Christmas cookies.
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Monday, December 07, 2009

Gingerbread House

One of our neighbors started a nice neighborhood tradition a few years back in which they open up their house on a Sunday afternoon and invite everybody over to decorate Gingerbread houses. Each family must provide their own house and a one bag, box, container of things with which to decorate it. When we got the invite to the first one a few years ago, we decided to not only build our own house, from scratch, but we also (insanely) doubled the recipe and therefore the size of the house. This is this year's entry and, by far, it is the most fully decorated of our houses to date. We did stain glass windows this year (next year I'm going to light it from the inside I've been discussing that since we started this), and used our excess Royal Icing to snow scape the "grounds." The party and our house is evolving into a tradition and it's a ton of fun. After Christmas we'll break the house up, peel off the candy and icing, and eat the gingerbread -- after all, it's a hard cookie intended to last a long time and it's delicious with a cup of tea in January and February.

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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Winter sky

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