Wednesday, December 22, 2010

pile stack

Now that is a heaping pile stack* of Christmas cookies and candies!  (And a bottle of wine sneaking into the picture, which I must say, goes well with chocolate.)  I did not bake all of these myself by the way.  My mom now lives in town!


from top to bottom:

  • pretzel wreaths
  • Swedish cookies
  • shortbread
  • spicy pecans (recipe here)
  • sour cream and nutmeg sugar cutout cookies
  • mixture from a cookie exchange party, (including a wonderful peppermint pinwheel, some coconut macaroons, chocolate cherry cookies and... lots more)

Next to the pile is a box of Russian chocolates from the office white elephant party. ( I always go for something edible and not white elephant-ish because otherwise I end up with the dog Christmas stocking paired with the plastic dog that poops candies if you bam it on the head.) The chocolates are adequate, but I don't eat adequate chocolate if I can help it. Plus the translations of the contents in each are a bit rough so I can't predict what I'm going to bite into. The kids like them.  On top of that box is a bowl of fresh pecans from a farmer in my CSA and some random school party candies. And wine.


*a "pile stack" is a phrase from baby Pook

And, because I'm dealing with photos, here is my new dining room table:

4 comments:

  1. Pretty table! And nice pile stack too. I cut way back on the baking this year and now I'm kind of sorry.

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  2. You forgot the homemade caramels.....
    Probably enough sweets to last til Valentine's Day.

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  3. Very often our children have become our idol, the center of our activity.

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  4. Great job with your blogsite!
    Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2011 - from an occasional visitor!

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