My true love gave to me...
Four Calling birds.
They are rare and I couldn't find a place to buy one. I did however find a source for peafowl, who are a cousin. I know from personal experience peafowl have quite a call too.
... my true love gave to me
Three French Hens...
Making Christmas cookies with Chris is always fun. This year we are making
The Norwegian Pepper cookies are a favorite of ours. Yes they contain black pepper, but you don't really realize it . They are simply wonderful and if you like to bake at all you should check out the recipe and make these cookies.
The Italian Lemon Cornmeal cookies were good, they are made with Splenda so they aren't so horrid for Chris to eat. I think if I make them again I'll add more lemon than the recipe calls for and maybe add a little ginger.
Of course we made the traditional gingerbread whales, bats and dinosaurs.
The Oatmeal cookies are my own special recipe and they use ground flax seed and buckwheat. They are sort of basic cookies but they are almost always a huge hit at cookie exchanges. I'll try and post that recipe later.
Went to cut down our Christmas tree today. we always go to Young's Christmas Tree Farm outside Yellow Springs Ohio. It's part of Young's Jersey Dairy, which is well worth a visit if you are ever in the Yellow Springs area. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Ohio, that's in the part of the state that was bulldozed by glaciers and it's quite flat. That means there is nothing to stop the wind and it's often quite cold when we go get out tree. For some reason the weekend we go get the tree often seems to be the coldest day of so far that winter. Well luck was with us this year and the weather was warmish for December, low 40's but it had rained the night before and there was something between a drizzle and a heavy fog going on when we got to the tree farm. So, it wasn't too cold, but it was muddy.
Despite that in we found a nice tree.
Cut it down.
Got it to the car.
Then went for a nice lunch at the Golden Jersey Inn.
