Christmas in the Kitchen

   This week I have been making up Christmas treats to gift, Mostly for our workers that are friends and always there for us when we need them.

  I have made two batches of peanut brittle and one batch of cashew brittle early in the week. The cashew brittle is for Larry.

I made gingerbread and white sugar cut out cookies to gift-so those are wheat cookies. Will frost them tomorrow. I also made up three batches of dark chocolate bark with nuts and candied fruits for toppings.

  I guess do to my age now, my back really gets to me working in the kitchen over a few hours now. So  I take a break with the heating pad-smiles.

  I will make up a batch of the chex mix to gift most of it-I use gluten free cereals, crackers and pretzels. That freezes well too. I may also bake up a batch of my chocolate popcorn-so good-that freezes well too.

  I grew up making dozens of different Christmas cookies-always fun for me to dig out the now vintage cutters.

  Amazon just now put my camera in the mail-that was really slow for them to mail out almost 2 weeks. Hopefully it will come by end of this week and will work out better than the previous two cameras.

  I started watching the Mo Town Christmas music show tonight-I recorded it to skip through all the commercials. It was really good. Mo Town records started when I was 10 years old, but I remember enjoying the music into the '60's  The only Christmas music show I have enjoyed so far.

  We woke up to just a dusting of a little snow-that melted right off. We are back to pretty cold again though, but thankfully I have not had to dig us out of snow. Last year we didn't get any snow at all.

  I also got most of my Christmas cards into the mail. The international ones went out this past Monday so hoping those arrive in time. I do still enjoy sending out cards-I get very few in return but it is one thing I enjoy doing. I bought stamps before the last price hike. I usually make my own but I found really nice cards on Etsy that a watercolor artist turned into high quality cards with envelopes.

  Enjoy December and the Holidays my friends.

   I found Snoopy to share