Comments on: Surviving the Holidays with Your Sanity Intact http://glimmers.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/surviving-the-holidays-with-your-sanity-intact/ Musings on life, work and laughter from a Life and Executive Coach Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:47:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: susanrmeyer http://glimmers.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/surviving-the-holidays-with-your-sanity-intact/#comment-55 susanrmeyer Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:26:42 +0000 http://glimmers.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/surviving-the-holidays-with-your-sanity-intact/#comment-55 Yup - it's all about making wise holiday choices. If it isn't fun, don't do it! Cookies used to be fun, and yes, I covered an extended kitchen table more than one year and have the photo to prove it. When I was younger and had a lot of time but very little money, I gave cookies, quick breads, chocolate covered orange slices and truffles as Christmas gifts. I averaged 15 varieties of cookies and made multiple batches of earch - starting before Thanksgiving and extending through Christmas Eve. My freezer AND my neighbor's freezer were full. I loved it and my family and friends were overjoyed. For a while, I branched out to Black Cake - a Jamaican fruit cake that involves steeping more than 5 pounds of dried fruit in a bottle of dark rum and a bottle of kosher (sweet) wine for several moths. This got mixed with a lot of butter, eggs, sugar, and burnt sugar syrup and a very little bit of flour. The result is wonderful. Now, I've passed the truffle recipe on to a cousin, make two kinds of cookies with my niece and do truffles for a select few. With luck, Donna, this year yours won't get left in the refrigerator by accident! Yup - it’s all about making wise holiday choices. If it isn’t fun, don’t do it! Cookies used to be fun, and yes, I covered an extended kitchen table more than one year and have the photo to prove it.

When I was younger and had a lot of time but very little money, I gave cookies, quick breads, chocolate covered orange slices and truffles as Christmas gifts. I averaged 15 varieties of cookies and made multiple batches of earch - starting before Thanksgiving and extending through Christmas Eve. My freezer AND my neighbor’s freezer were full. I loved it and my family and friends were overjoyed.

For a while, I branched out to Black Cake - a Jamaican fruit cake that involves steeping more than 5 pounds of dried fruit in a bottle of dark rum and a bottle of kosher (sweet) wine for several moths. This got mixed with a lot of butter, eggs, sugar, and burnt sugar syrup and a very little bit of flour. The result is wonderful.

Now, I’ve passed the truffle recipe on to a cousin, make two kinds of cookies with my niece and do truffles for a select few.

With luck, Donna, this year yours won’t get left in the refrigerator by accident!

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