every christmas, my mom would make sugar cookies. every christmas.
she would use cookie cutters & make fun christmas-y shapes, and my cousins & i would get to decorate them. it is one of the things i associate most with my christmas traditions growing up. poor lady probably spent hours getting green icing off the counter & walls (and who knows where else) and vacuuming sprinkles and those silver sugar balls out of the carpet, but we always had fun!
rob & i have been huge slackers when it comes to christmas traditions. we've never gotten a tree. we've collected maybe 5 ornaments during the 5 years we've been married. i guess, you could say we're still finding our traditions. i may have found one to start with this year.
this year, i found a recipe for "chesapeake bay chex mix"
which is like normal chex mix, that gives homage to the chesapeake bay region by using old bay seasoning & oyster crackers.
http://www.marthastewart.com/334803/chesapeake-bay-snack-mix
thanks martha stewart!
and, i also took my first crack at candy making. i made a few batches of peppermint bark.
it's super simple, but i had to figure out how to temper chocolate.
http://candy.about.com/od/specialoccasions/r/pepbark.htm
what do you remember your mom making at christmas??
and what do you now make every year?
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Actually, my dad made/makes cookies with this amazing raisin filling for Christmas every year. It's my Grandma's recipe (his mom).
My mom, grandma, and I used to make buñuelos every year. Since my grandma passed, we haven't really made them. Maybe I'll start doing it again this year. At least for Marisela's sake.
The first year that Vernon and I spent Christmas as a married couple, I made tamales... never made them before in my life before that! I've made them every year since - this year we will have been married for 10 years. Wow - how time does fly.
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