Day 2 of our Cross Country Christmas is 'Special food/cookie you made as a kid or was a tradition'.
Then it says... 'PLUS A RECIPE'.... okayyyyyyyyyy
Let's do the memory part first shall we?
Traditional foods... funny you should ask. I do NOT come from a family of good cooks. Quite the opposite actually! We are NOT known for great cooking and NOBODY has recipes they passed down.
Eating at one set of Great-Grandparents home was SUCH a food 'adventure' (and I use that word generously) that visits there to eat are stories that live on in my family being told year after year! My grandmother's were not any better and sorry mom.. she does not like to cook either!
So mostly I remember the candy bowls... bowls and bowls of lovely ... yummy... candies! My Granny would get 'Wofgangs' with a 'nougat' inside. What is a nougat? Sort of a soft white taffy with nuts.
Of course we loved the ribbon candies and the chocolates... loads of goodies in those bowls!
So for the recipe part? Come share YOURS with me at Quilt Mashup Yummy food section. We all share what we love and what we are making for dinner and what worked and didn't work! It's a good thing... and I'd love to have you there!
Now get yourself over to Sandy's blog.. it's her day!
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And maybe she and the other 11 designers have FABULOUS recipes for you... I'm hoping... cuz you really don't NEED 12 new recipes do you?
Tomorrow is Gifts.. I can handle that one!
ps - Notice the bangs are better? But the socks... mmmm... wonder what THAT was about? Must have dressed myself! (we have even MORE photos of me in this stunning childhood outfit)
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Love the christmas tree memories and the goodies of course!
Posted by: arlette | November 21, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Hmmm. A Christmas tree story. My favorite times were when my family went to the tree farm to choose and cut a tree. Deciding was so hard, but sooooo fun. And the smell of a fresh tree was, and still is, wonderful. Fun times.
Posted by: Lana Ebeling | November 13, 2009 at 01:48 AM
I wish I knew there would come a time when you couldn't get the lead icicles. I would have bought a train car full. I loved them the most and now I only get to see them when I watch old Christmas movies. I drool over the trees with the limbs barely able to hold the weight of those heavy lead iciles.
Posted by: Susan Brooks | November 12, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Hi Pat, I loved the bubble lites my grandma had on her little fake tree. She never had much money but had this old tiny tree with bubble lites. I loved it as a little girl. Thanks for the great pillow pattern!
Posted by: Junelle | November 12, 2009 at 08:18 PM
I really liked the snowflakes and zigzag combination!
Posted by: Margaret | November 12, 2009 at 07:50 PM
Hi Pat, I know what you mean about putting iciles on the Christmas tree just right. My father had the same idea, one at a time and make sure it hangs straight down. Those were made of lead...right? My sisters and I couldn't wait till we had our own trees and could chose to put the iciles on the way we wanted, but do you know what. I knid of miss Dad's iciles. The tree always looked so beautiful.
This Cross Country Christmas blog has been great. Thanks.
Posted by: Carol Ludwick | November 12, 2009 at 06:58 PM
thank for the pattern this is a fun blog hop
Posted by: lora | November 12, 2009 at 03:36 PM
Pat, the Christmas tree memories take me back 50 years, going to find the perfect cedar with our dad. Bigger always looked better to me, invariable had to cut four feet off the bottom when we got home, but Daddy never complained, just laughed. Mom would put Ivory snow flakes in her dishpan, and beat it with her hand with a little water to make a thick foam. We'd take handfulls and pull it onto the branches to make the snow we almost never saw in South Arkansas. Thanks for the sweet memories.
Posted by: Marcia Henderson | November 12, 2009 at 02:35 PM
My Polish grandparents sent us ribbon candy every year. What a special treat!
Posted by: Susan Galasso | November 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Greetings from Canada. Every year retired employees from our Company meet in a different town and are asked to show off their talents. I will use this pattern. I'm sure it will make some of them envious.
Have a great day.
Posted by: Colette Rowberry | November 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM
oohh ribbon candy was always good! I remember that if it was out for a few days, it always stuck together! We must have had too much humidity in the mid-west... or something!
Beth in Dallas
Posted by: Beth Patrick | November 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM
I can't seem to get my comment to post on Sandy's blog. Is there a secret?
Posted by: anne | November 12, 2009 at 08:24 AM
Thank you for the pillow pattern. It's very nice. We use to go out and cut our trees down which was always a lot of fun. It seemed like the weekend we picked would always be the coldest weekend. It was fun to cut it down, bring it home and decorate it. I loved the smell of the tree.
Posted by: Sandi | November 12, 2009 at 06:13 AM
My mother's a great cook, and even at 80 still loves to prepare an all-out feast for any occasion, for friends and family! I don't enjoy cooking, but do cook on a regular basis for myself and husband, always trying to keep the work to a minimum! :) I might not enjoy cooking, but I LOVE food, and LOVE reading recipes and food blogs!!!
Posted by: Coleen McDavid | November 11, 2009 at 05:10 PM
I remember having a little elf like that one but mine was fabric, and probably hung on the tree.
Posted by: Jocelyn | November 11, 2009 at 03:45 PM