What’s on the cookie list for 2012!

As promised my cookie list for 2012. It might sound a bit overwhelming, but it’s all about organizing, really. If you are planing on a long cookie list, you should check out my recommendations on baking a lot of cookies at a time.  I have to say, although I was not planing on making so…

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How to make dozens of cookies without really trying

This is going to be a long post, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Why is it every year when I say that I’m not going to bake any Christmas cookies something always happens and I end up making even more than I thought humanly possible? This year I even got the perfect excuse- I…

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Thanksgiving 2012

      Thanksgiving preparations are afoot in our house.      Groceries shopping, bags hauling, fruit and vegetables slicing, dicing, and spicing, bread baking, turkey brining, appetizers arranging, deserts baking….Sounds like mad house? Sounds like your house?  Yep, that’s us today.      In the middle of all the preparations and creative chaos, I decided to stop and smell…

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Happy Easter 2012

The great thing about having Orthodox Easter in USA is that usually it is a week later, so you can catch all the Easter sales.The bad thing about having Orthodox Easter in the USA is that usually it is a week later, and your kids are expecting to celebrate both, which means Easter Bunny comes…

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