Traditional Holiday food?

[Amira]

Do you have any traditional meals or dishes or treats you like to make around the holidays? Maybe something from your ethnic background, or something everyone in your country makes, or something your family does, or whatever. I don't care how long it's lasted or if you do it every year, I'm just curious what special foods you like to eat this time of year.

 

We like to eat latkes for Hanukkah (except this year they'll be masa-potato latkes) and somehow homemade Chex mix is necessary for New Years Eve, if I can get Chex. I like to have tamales for Christmas and we've added in buñuelos now too. We often have red and green pancakes or waffles on Christmas morining, or maybe borsak. Some years we make Danish rice pudding and we usually make some peppermint cookies and cardamom cookies. Also, red and green peanut M&Ms while we play games on Christmas day.

 

How about you?

[AK_Mom4]

Smoked salmon and ritz crackers

Red beans and rice with sausage (reindeer of course!)

Beef rib on Christmas

Gingerbread cookies and punch on Christmas Day.

[Lady Florida.]

My family's traditional Christmas dinner is ravoli with meatballs. When I was very young it was eggplant parmigiana but after a while my mother got tired of the work involved. Most  of Christmas Eve day was spent breading and frying the eggplant slices as well as cooking the sauce and making the meatballs. Even after she went to baking the slices, it was still too much for her as a single working mother. Sometime in my late teen years (can't remember exactly) she switched to ravioli. We were all happy to switch (frozen Celentano brand ravioli, not homemade). What we would never give up was her meatballs and something with her sauce. Dh and dss were quickly converted to my family tradition (from Christmas ham) after the first time they had a Christmas dinner at her house.

 

Although I cooked at her side since I was little, after she died I had a hard time recreating her sauce. The past two years I've come as close as I think I ever will (my aunt swears the pot makes a difference, and my brother got our mother's pots). I've decided while it's not exactly my mother's sauce it's close, it's my sauce that hopefully my grand kids will remember fondly, and it's pretty darn good. I'm still working on the meatballs 6 years after her death. They're harder than the sauce because the seasonings are more subtle.

 

Dh is a true southerner and to him New Year's Day isn't New Year's Day without Hoppin' John. My family never had a traditional New Year dinner, so I make that for him from his mother's recipe every year. Ds and I like it too, but I really make it for dh.

[Reefgazer]

DH's family is Polish Catholic and so is my dad, so on Christmas Eve we have pierogi and fish for dinner and share oplatki and then head off to church.  The next day (Christmas), we don't have anything in particular - just regular holiday food.  Christmas Eve is the special food night.

[Chris in VA]

Not oatmeal raisin cookies.

 

Except for one of us.

 

:001_tt2:

[umsami]

We do latkes with applesauce and sour cream on Hanukkah.  I usually buy the kids dreidels and Hanukkah gelt. One year, I decided it was overpriced, so we used gold-foil covered Hershey kisses with almonds.

We also will buy or make jelly doughnuts one of the days of Hanukkah.

 

On Winter Solstice, we always make sun bread.  I've always meant to make a yule log, but haven't tried it yet.

 

For Christmas, we always make these pecan sticky buns that involve crescent dough, cinnamon sugar, pecans (can use walnuts too), brown sugar, and a little maple syrup (recipe calls for corn syrup, but maple syrup works).   We almost always have some sort of egg-y breakfast casserole...sometimes made with hash browns, sometimes made with bread.

 

My Mom usually wants me to cook a turkey for her.  So, think Thanksgiving part deux.

 

We'll make some Christmas cookies, almost always cut-out cookies.  There's this recipe from Cook's Country for these insanely good toffee chocolate-dipped cookies, which we've made a few years.  We usually make peanut butter kiss cookies too.  If there will be company, we'll make the graham cracker or saltine toffee.  Oh, and always spiced nuts.  

 

 

 

[JonesinIndiana]

I am from the Midwest and my grandmother made an oyster dressing for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Not sure how far back the dressing goes, though. Fortunately, my WNY Eastern European hubby loves it as does my southern China daughter.

[LucyStoner]

The tradition in my father's family is oyster stew on Christmas Eve. Eww.

 

I killed that one in my family in favor of something people actually like to eat.

 

My mother made fudge, which I still do.

 

We've started some of our own traditions- Christmas morning breakfast of smoked salmon, little bagels, cream cheese, cinnamon rolls. Christmas dinner of roast beast, all day brown sauce, mash, green veggies.

[Farrar]

My mom always does a standing rib roast for Christmas Eve dinner. It's insane. She spends two days on the gravy. We spend all year looking forward to it.

 

As a southerner at heart, I have to eat peas and greens at New Year's. And ham.

[Joyofsixreboot]

As a kid oyster stew and chili on Christmas Eve. Not for my kids though. They must have my camel " turd" ( sorry) cookies. We have my homemade cinnamon rolls Christmas morning and we have a buffet with lots of finger foods for the family through the day. My dad usually buys pizza for everyone for the extended family get together. My ethnic contribution is my German need to have cabbage on New Years Day for good luck. We also put pennies in the window sills New Year's Eve to bring in money for the year.

[milovany]

We've taken to pizza and ice cream for Christmas dinner!

 

 

ETA -- wanted to add more ....

 

For Thanksgiving (which is a vegan day for our faith, but sometimes we can have fish too) we have salmon, roasted Brussels sprouts, an orange tapioca jello salad of my mom's, some homemade rolls that my daughter makes and maybe butternut squash soup. 

 

On either the first day of snow or (if it hasn't snowed by Nov. 15, on the last day before Nov. 15), we have homemade hot chocolate that my daughter makes.  It's sooo rich and good.  We add marshmallows and candy canes. 

 

Our church has a tradition of eating mostly vegan (with a few fish days thrown in) from Nov. 15 through Dec. 24 so I guess that counts as a family/cultural/religious tradition.  We break the fast at church after the midnight service gets out with sliced meats and cheeses, hard-boiled eggs and MILK (oh, that's me, not everyone -- I love milk and take some to church just for this LOL). 

 

On Christmas morning we usually do something with eggs and bacon or sausage.  We have an oven peach French toast recipe that we love. 

 

The pizza and ice cream is later in the day. 

 

For New Year's eve we like several wheels of baked brie served with good crackers, a crusty bread, slices of apples, grapes and also some roasted garlic (not all together, pick and choose for each cracker/bread!) We also watch movies until midnight so might have some popcorn, too.  Oh, and we LOVE to make whipped syllabub on this day, too. 

 

New Year's Day, hmmmm, not many traditions.  I know my husband likes pickled herring.  I think we tend to do sliced meats and cheeses on that day, too.  Last year we went ice skating and had hot chocolate outdoors.  That was fun. 

 

Fun thread!

[chiguirre]

We have hallacas, super deluxe tamales wrapped in plantain leaves, sweet bread stuffed with ham, raisins and olives, and either a pork roast or ham.

[Momling]

We also do a Polish Christmas eve with carp (if possible) and potatoes and things like poppyseed cake and such.

 

We have also had fun doing historical Christmas cooking. Victorian England is a good starting place. We had goose and a Christmas pudding and some other stuff that I can't remember...

[SparklyUnicorn]

Not really.  That is one holiday I don't tend to serve the same things over and over again.  Probably the one thing I have made the most times is prime rib.  DH doesn't like beef though so I make him something else. 

[cjzimmer1]

We always have White Christmas Pie for Christmas but the rest of the meal varies although lately it has been ham.  For New Year's Day, we get together and have cold peel and eat shrimp and Plum Duff (although the get together is in honor of my sister who's birthday is that day and always laments how forgotten her birthday is being so close to Christmas)

[bettyandbob]

I make gingerbread and help the dc build houses with it. Their houses are their Christmas Eve dessert. Christmas Eve dinner is usually a beef stew. 

 

 

[raptor_dad]

As a southerner at heart, I have to eat peas and greens at New Year's. And ham.

 

Black eyed peas, ham hocks or fat back or bacon, depending on whats available... Collards or occasionally weird chinese greens like kai-lan or other greens from the Vietnamese vendors at the farmer's market depending on where we are living... and of course corn bread...

 

At Christmas, the main trad thing is persimmon pudding. It is always local persimmons. One of the last persimmon trees on my parents property was struck by lightning and the other doesn't fruit. Luckily there are several on the greenway just down the road. Those weird Japanese persimmons might taste similar but they just don't work ;) Disregard Wiki, our family recipe is baked not steamed. Grandma had a similar pumpkin pudding recipe I grew up on instead of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.

 

[KarenNC]

Eggnog is required while decorating the trees.

 

Hanukkah:  the local Jewish synagogue has started renting space from our UU church, so we are invited to a Hanukkah celebration with them (looking forward to latkes and maybe brisket)

 

Winter Solstice: during the day it varies, but dinner for many years has been Chinese takeout while watching "The Hebrew Hammer" after my daughter goes to bed. Now that she's older, but not quite ready for that movie, we usually have our takeout earlier while watching "The Hogfather" with her. Eggnog is required at some point that day (not with the Chinese takeout, though :) )

 

Christmas: My dad has a Christmas brunch at 10 with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage balls, sausage patties, sausage links, grits, biscuits, jelly, country ham, red eye gravy, sometimes fatback, and various desserts.

     

 

New Year's we have just about anything *but* black-eyed peas, collards, and hog jowls (yuck!)--my father's version of traditional New Year's food.

 

Somewhere in there I often make cheese straws, Chex mix, sausage balls, saltine toffee, that sort of thing.

[KungFuPanda]

My grandmother has to boil a dollar coin in cabbage at at New Year's every year. We figure whatever luck/protection that provides extends to everyone. My kids think Christmas means one fondue dinner and one all-day appetizer smorgasborg. My sister and I started doing the appetizers a few years ago. We just steadily release things throughout the day as we feel like it and everyone loves it. Crab dip with lots of old bay and homemade sourdough is always one of the dishes. My sister arranges the veggie platter like a tree then tries to keep it pretty by replacing what people eat. I'm just not dedicated enough for that.

[Mom in High Heels]

We really don't have any traditional foods.  I wish we had something other than Thanksgiving Redux.  I'm not a fan of T-giving foods as it is, so doing it again...blech.  On Christmas Eve we usually go out to dinner, and on Christmas Day, James Bond likes T-giving foods, and I just can't handle it.  If I remember, I make cinnamon rolls for b'fast on Christmas morning, but more often than not, I forget, and everyone is too hungry after opening gifts to wait for them to cook.  Oops.  I haven't figured out what we're doing for Christmas dinner this year.  Last year we went to a buffet at one of the local casinos.  It was really good, but I don't want to do it again.  I would be happy with Chinese, but I don't think I can get anyone else to go for it.

 

I really want to make a yule log for Solstice, but I'm afraid!  Maybe this year!

 

We don't do a big meal on NY, like a lot of people.  It's just a loaf around the house kind of day, and everyone usually fends for themselves, except Han Solo, and he'll eat whatever I give him.  My family in the south does the whole big NY dinner, and they all eat black eyed peas and collard greens.   :ack2:  :ack2:  :ack2:

 

 

[Mom in High Heels]

My grandmother has to boil a dollar coin in cabbage at at New Year's every year. We figure whatever luck/protection that provides extends to everyone. My kids think Christmas means one fondue dinner and one all-day appetizer smorgasborg. My sister and I started doing the appetizers a few years ago. We just steadily release things throughout the day as we feel like it and everyone loves it. Crab dip with lots of old bay and homemade sourdough is always one of the dishes. My sister arranges the veggie platter like a tree then tries to keep it pretty by replacing what people eat. I'm just not dedicated enough for that.

 

^^^ That's genius!  Why didn't I think of that?  Oh, wait, because JB would probably gripe.  He knows I don't like cooking that day, and always says he'll do it, but that really means me doing half the work, and 3/4 of the cleaning.  Where's my holiday???

 

I'm just not dedicated enough for that. <----  :smilielol5:  :smilielol5:  :smilielol5: 

[KungFuPanda]

^^^ That's genius!  Why didn't I think of that?  Oh, wait, because JB would probably gripe.  He knows I don't like cooking that day, and always says he'll do it, but that really means me doing half the work, and 3/4 of the cleaning.  Where's my holiday???

 

I'm just not dedicated enough for that. <----  :smilielol5:  :smilielol5:  :smilielol5: 

I'm not sure all those appetizers are less work unless you buy a lot of them prepared. We use it as an excuse to serve a bunch of stuff that doesn't really go together and we have two people cooking who LIKE to cook, so it's fun for us. With six kids in the house we just grab the first one we see and send him around with the next batch of tidbits. Perhaps if you walk around in an elf costume with your serving trays JB won't complain?

[freeindeed]

We always make and eat gingerbread cookies and these fabulous special rice krispy treats: http://ourbestbites.com/2011/12/peppermint-bark-rice-krispie-treats/The other things we eat vary from year to year. I eat low carb/sugar free, but on Christmas, all bets are off! That means I choose whatever I am in the mood for eating. :)

[Mom in High Heels]

I'm not sure all those appetizers are less work unless you buy a lot of them prepared. We use it as an excuse to serve a bunch of stuff that doesn't really go together and we have two people cooking who LIKE to cook, so it's fun for us. With six kids in the house we just grab the first one we see and send him around with the next batch of tidbits. Perhaps if you walk around in an elf costume with your serving trays JB won't complain?

 

Only if it were a sexy and/or naughty elf costume, he might not care, but it would be awkward around the boys.

[SKL]

My parents will do a Christmas ham if they're up to it.  My kids and I might do Christmas cookies if we're up to it.

 

For New Year's Eve, my sister tries to maintain the tradition of eating something with cabbage and pork.  (She does this at my parents' house for the extended family).  Usually it's her famous cabbage rolls (yum) and sauerkraut balls (meh).

 

And wine, of course, to ring in the new year.

[LucyStoner]

My mom always does a standing rib roast for Christmas Eve dinner. It's insane. She spends two days on the gravy. We spend all year looking forward to it.

 

As a southerner at heart, I have to eat peas and greens at New Year's. And ham.

 

I'm lazy and only spend a day on the gravy. :) I do an all-day brown sauce (Julia Child's recipe) 1-3 days before and then make my final sauce with the brown sauce, the rib roast pan juices, mustard and wine. It's worth the wait!

[Spy Car]

What, am I not going to have latkes at Chanukah? My favorite way to have them is a topped with a dollop of Russian (aka Canadian style) Sour Cream and some Salmon Caviar.

 

When fasting for Ramadan (there is a lot of starving :D) but I like starting Iftar with one perfect Medjool date (I like them dry, but not too dry, with lots of crystialization of the sugars) followed by a nice soup. Maybe a Palestinian-style Lentil soup, or a Persian Ash-e-Jo (a little heavy on the Khash).

 

For Christmas Eve I'll often make a duck, or goose, or sometimes a Salmon, just not "meat" for some reason. For Christmas mornings I usually serve Smoked Salmon, other Smoked Fish, and/or Pickled Herring. Often Dutch Babies (Popovers) frosted with powdered sugar and gived a good squeeze of lemon. Christmas Dinner is often (my favorite) Prime Rib, or Lamb Roast (another favorite). If someone serves Ham, I go vegetarian. This year for second-dinner we're going to the neighbor's for tamales.

 

Bill (who's never met a culture whose holidays he wasn't willing to expropriate for food :p)

[MEmama]

*Latkes on Hannukah (often I'll make a whole feast because DS just loves Jewish food) .

*Take out Chinese food on Christmas Eve (eaten on great grandmother's antique China while watching A Christmas Story)

*Dutch Babies on Christmas morning, with leftover Chinese food for dinner

 

Also, DH likes Gjetost (caramelized Norwegian cheese) so we have that around this time of year.

[JennyD]

 

I am really enjoying this thread!

 

I am making latkes and applesauce for tonight, and we are invited to other events this week that will feature latkes and/or doughnuts.  I also bought some Trader's Joe's frozen potato pancakes, which are pretty good, for later in the holiday.  Not as good as homemade, of course, but I can only cope with frying latkes once a year.  

 

I'm supposed to bring dessert to an event later this week and was idly looking at a recipe for a cake in the shape of a dreidel.  Not sure I'm up to that, though.

 

 

 

 

[Baseball mom]

Christmas time

-- my grandmothers Christmas cookie

-- sausage balls

 

Our schedule and meals change each year but got to have those 2 things at some point during Christmas. Do more appetizers/party foods instead of full meals.

 

New Years Day must have - turnip greens, black eyed peas, hog jowl & cornbread. Usually have cabbage and mac & cheese too.

[umsami]

 

 

I am really enjoying this thread!

 

I am making latkes and applesauce for tonight, and we are invited to other events this week that will feature latkes and/or doughnuts.  I also bought some Trader's Joe's frozen potato pancakes, which are pretty good, for later in the holiday.  Not as good as homemade, of course, but I can only cope with frying latkes once a year.  

 

I'm supposed to bring dessert to an event later this week and was idly looking at a recipe for a cake in the shape of a dreidel.  Not sure I'm up to that, though.

 

 

They were giving out samples of TJ's latkes today.  I was so happy.  They even had applesauce.

 

I saw this today and thought these were amazing.  Look difficult though. 

 

http://www.couldntbeparve.com/2012/12/dreidel-cookies-with-a-surprise/

[JennyD]

They were giving out samples of TJ's latkes today.  I was so happy.  They even had applesauce.

 

I saw this today and thought these were amazing.  Look difficult though. 

 

http://www.couldntbeparve.com/2012/12/dreidel-cookies-with-a-surprise/

 

 

Wow, what an awesome idea!  My kids would go bonkers for making those.  

[raptor_dad]

Somewhere in there I often make cheese straws, Chex mix, sausage balls, saltine toffee, that sort of thing.

 

Mmm... Sausage Balls :) Neese's Hot Sausage, sharp cheddar, bisquick... Those and Moravian sugar cake are the main Christmas things I miss now that we're GFCF...

 

[fruitofthewomb]

My mom always makes a cheese ball-it is so good. Only time during the year she makes it for some reason.

 

My MIL always has peas, cabbage rolls, & corn fritters on New Year's Day.

 

My uncle has always made me a tiny pecan pie. His are the best & at some point when I was much younger he started making me a tiny one. I love that I am in my 30s & I still get that special little pie.

 

I want to start a tradition with my kids of something special for Christmas Eve & breakfast on Christmas morning but nothing has stuck so far.

[KrissiK]

I make peppernuts, which is a little German-Mennonite Christmas cookie. Mine are hard, crunchy and spicy with cinnamon, anice, cardamom and allspice. Some others are soft and the spices vary. The only thing they all have in common is size, which is about 1/2"-3/4" in diameter. There are as many peppernut recipes as there are Mennonite Grandmas, I always say. And they are highly addictive.

[Spy Car]

I make peppernuts, which is a little German-Mennonite Christmas cookie. Mine are hard, crunchy and spicy with cinnamon, anice, cardamom and allspice. Some others are soft and the spices vary. The only thing they all have in common is size, which is about 1/2"-3/4" in diameter. There are as many peppernut recipes as there are Mennonite Grandmas, I always say. And they are highly addictive.

I'm not much of a cookie guy, but those sound good.

 

Bill

 

ETA: Wait a minute, I know these cookies...they are Pfefferneusse, right? Need more coffee :D

[Jane in NC]

Mmm... Sausage Balls :) Neese's Hot Sausage, sharp cheddar, bisquick... Those and Moravian sugar cake are the main Christmas things I miss now that we're GFCF...

 

 

My sympathies.  I'll eat an extra slice of homemade Moravian sugar cake in your honor.

[KrissiK]

I'm not much of a cookie guy, but those sound good.

 

Bill

 

ETA: Wait a minute, I know these cookies...they are Pfefferneusse, right? Need more coffee :D

Yes, they are. "Peppernuts" is just the English corruption of the German word. Gets people confused because there is neither pepper nor nuts in the recipe.

[Jennifer3141]

My DH is Scottish so I have to make a traditional pudding and a cherry pudding for Xmas every year. That reminds me... I need suet.

 

Chex Mix is going in the oven today. That's my family's tradition.

[Audrey]

Tourtière comes from my dh's traditions.

 

Candied yams comes from mine. 

 

 

[KidsHappen]

First off, I always (for 20+ years) order cheeses and desserts from Swiss Colony for the holiday season. We serve these on Christmas Eve along with other homemade hors d'vours. On Christmas Day we have a traditional meal of some sort of very tender beef cut, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli, green bean and sweet potato cassaroles and rolls. I always make fudge, French Silk Pie and Carrot Cake. On Christmas Day after presents in the morning and the traditional meal at noon we go to the movies late afternoon or early evening and then we pull out all the various leftovers for dinner with everyone allowed to eat what ever they want meaning if you want pie for dinner well so be it. One dd makes wedding cookies the week of Christmas every year. She started this of her own accord. We also imbibe freely the week of Christmas. It is the one time of year when it is acceptable to consume Baileys or peppermint snapps in our morning coffee or rum in our OJ, and then of course wine at dinner (which is really more like lunch) and then maybe a mixed drink with our evening appetizers. I think food is my favorite thing about Christmas. Well ok, after spending time with the family.  

[Southern Ivy]

Christmas morning - homemade cinnamon rolls 

Christmas dinner - ham, broccoli cheese casserole, homemade rolls, and Cherry Delight (cherry pie filling, sweetened condensed milk, whipped cream, almond extract...pure heaven!)

 

[Spy Car]

I make peppernuts, which is a little German-Mennonite Christmas cookie. Mine are hard, crunchy and spicy with cinnamon, anice, cardamom and allspice. Some others are soft and the spices vary. The only thing they all have in common is size, which is about 1/2"-3/4" in diameter. There are as many peppernut recipes as there are Mennonite Grandmas, I always say. And they are highly addictive.

OK, I was at Trader Joes tonight and saw a box of Pfefferneusse. My son also spotted them and asked if we could get a box. I generally nix the sweets, but caved this time.

 

OMG! Are these good. I love Pfefferneusse, but didn't expect the TJ version to be so good. Theirs are an intriguing mix of a hard exterior with a soft interior. So one gets hard/crunch and soft-moistness in the same bite. And they are well-spiced. I do not have a "sweet-tooth" and would back off the sweetness a tad if I could, but stil....ONE OF THE BEST BOXED COOKIES I'VE EVER HAD!

 

If any of you all like spiced cookies and have a TJs near-by the Pfefferneusse get a big thumbs up from me.

 

Bill (who's attempting to exercise restraint)

[shukriyya]

OK, I was at Trader Joes tonight and saw a box of Pfefferneusse. My son also spotted them and asked if we could get a box. I generally nix the sweets, but caved this time.

 

OMG! Are these good. I love Pfefferneusse, but didn't expect the TJ version to be so good. Theirs are an intriguing mix of a hard exterior with a soft interior. So one gets hard/crunch and soft-moistness in the same bite. And they are well-spiced. I do not have a "sweet-tooth" and would back off the sweetness a tad if I could, but stil....ONE OF THE BEST BOXED COOKIES I'VE EVER HAD!

 

If any of you all like spiced cookies and have a TJs near-by the Pfefferneusse get a big thumbs up from me.

 

Bill (who's attempting to exercise restraint)

Your second paragraph could have come straight from their Frequent Flyer pamphlet :lol:

[Spy Car]

Your second paragraph could have come straight from their Frequent Flyer pamphlet :lol:

I have one of those "affiliate" deals, so if you buy a box I cash in. Oh wait, t'aint so. Drat :D

 

They are good. I swear. If you like spiced cookies.

 

I had three (and I'm struggling to leave it there).

 

Bill

[gardenmom5]

fudge.  it's just not christmas without it.  2ds has taken over the fudge making responsiblities.  he makes very good fudge.  (and NO marshmallow creme!  I grew up on it, because it was "easier", then I got this recipe  . . .)

 

I also make spritz and meringue kisses (have to do something with the egg whites)

 

brie

 

and I've added in norwegian smoked salmon.  it's not something we get very often, so Christmas is one time I can look forward to having it.

 

dh used to have pickled herring and sour creme.  now - he has a jar of pickled herring in the fridge almost year round. cough, choke, gag.

 

we've probably done a standing rib roast more often than not, but we've also done scampi & ham, etc.

 

and dh's rolls. there would be a revolt if we didn't have them.   dh's nieces and nephews could not care less about what's on the thanksgiving menu as long as they get uncle's rolls.

[gardenmom5]

OK, I was at Trader Joes tonight and saw a box of Pfefferneusse. My son also spotted them and asked if we could get a box. I generally nix the sweets, but caved this time.

 

OMG! Are these good. I love Pfefferneusse, but didn't expect the TJ version to be so good. Theirs are an intriguing mix of a hard exterior with a soft interior. So one gets hard/crunch and soft-moistness in the same bite. And they are well-spiced. I do not have a "sweet-tooth" and would back off the sweetness a tad if I could, but stil....ONE OF THE BEST BOXED COOKIES I'VE EVER HAD!

 

If any of you all like spiced cookies and have a TJs near-by the Pfefferneusse get a big thumbs up from me.

 

Bill (who's attempting to exercise restraint)

 

thanks for the reminder.

I need to stop by TJ and pick some up in the morning.  they are good.  dh loves them.