Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Nov 19, 2013

Turkey Cookies for the "Kids Table"

 
 
 
Thanksgiving is right around the corner.
 
It will be here before you know it.
 
 
Don't tell the retail stores that, they
have skipped right over Thanksgiving, and
went from 4th of July right to Christmas.
 
Halloween and Thanksgiving have been
moved down the holiday food chain,
next year, they will be as popular as
Flag Day and May Day.
 
But...I love me some Thanksgiving!
 
Some of my favorite Thanksgiving memories
revolve around the
Kids Table at Thanksgiving Dinner at my
Grandma's house.
 
Our Kids Table, was banished to a small
room off the kitchen.  No fancy table cloths
no cloth napkins, no center pieces.
 
Just a card table and some "chairs".
I say "chairs" because they were often
times not chairs, but step ladders, wooden spools,
lawn chairs, boxes, whatever we could find.
But we always had fun.
  
 We also did not have
decorated cookies on our plates,
I think they would be so cute
at the kids table. 
 
 
 
And then, just to keep the little
ones busy, add an edible
food marker.
 
 
 
And have them write what they are
thankful for.


 


I made these cookies using a number eight cutter
and a simple leaf cutter.  They are easy to make
require few colors, and sure to be a hit this Thanksgiving.


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Dec 30, 2012

Toodles 2012...you have been great!

 
 
So....2012 is coming to an end..and 2013 is upon us.
 
Is it just me, or did this year just
fly by?
 
 
I mean really....it seemed like just yesterday,
I was celebrating Valentines day?
 
I think time moves faster as you get older.
 
I remember when I was younger,
 
Summer Vacation lasted FOREVER,
now...you blink and it is over!
 
And the period of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
 
oh my...they say it was 4 weeks this year,
personally...I think it was 4 days...but whatever!
 
 
I baked and decorated TONS of cookies this year.
 
Not a lot compared to some of the great cookiers out there,
 
but all of these cookies were done while
working a full time job.
 
And...I only have 3 hours each night to work on cookies,
because my lovely son, Collin, closes the kitchen and cookie room at
9 pm...SHARP from Sunday-Thursday.
 
He is STRICT
Friday and Saturday I can work late into the night, or till early in the morning,
but other then those two night..
 
HE SHUTS ME DOWN!
 
No matter how many cookies I have to do, or
how far behind I am.....9 PM....no exceptions!
 
 
So....no matter how the volume of cookies coming out of my
kitchen compares to others,
 
I am pretty proud of what I can do in a limited
amount of time!
 
So...I put together some collages of some of my
favorite cookies of 2012 for you
 
 
Lets take a look, shall we?
 
 






 
So, there you have it
 
my 2012 in cookies!
 
I would like to be able to tell you that great and wonderful
things are in store next year for The Cookie Puzzle,
but that would be a lie.
 
I plan on keep doing what I am doing....
 
simple cookies
 
simple blog
 
simple person
 
it does not take much to make this gal happy!
 
Hopefully though
 
I will post more
 
push my self more
 
maybe do a tutorial here and there
 
but mostly...I just want to be true to me
 
and hopefully that is good enough to make
a few people happy,
that would make me happy!
 
Wishing you a Happy and Blessed
2013
 
 
until next time,
 
Hugs
Kim

Nov 10, 2012

Virtual Thanksgiving Potluck

 
 
Thanksgiving is that special holiday
 
Family
 
Food
 
Friends!
 
 
Those three things make for a special day!
 
I am blessed with a wonderful family.
 
My family makes amazing food!
 
(my sister's stuffing balls...SHUT THE DOOR YUMMY!)
 
 
I have an amazing group of friends!
 
We have been together for sometime.
 
 
We  share cookie stories and ideas.
 
We help each other when cookies don't look right.
 
We listen when one of us have one of those total off day,
you know then you have craters, and bleeding.
 
Only a cookie friend would understand that.
 
My wonderful husband and family are super
supportive of me and my cookies, but honestly
if I tell my husband that my brown is bleeding into my white, his
response is
"Put a band-aid on it, that usually helps."
 
WHATEVER!
 
He clearly does not "get" me like my
friends do.
 
SO....since my friends are spread out all over the
country, we decided to have a
 
 
 
We each brought a cookie-fied Thanksgiving dish.
 
I brought turkey!
 
Talk about pressure!
 
But, I have to say..I loved how it turned out!
 
 


I also brought mashed potatoes

 
and gravy
 
 
Want to see what the other ladies brought?
 
The wonderful Melissa from
 
put together a wonderful collage for us
Thank you Melissa.
 
Make sure you click on the links
below to see the more pictures of the cookies,
they will take your breath away...
and make you hungry!


 

 
 


 
Thank you ladies for being great friends and for all the
wonderful cookies
Hopefully we can get together for real some time and have a
"Friendsgiving"
 
Until next time
 
 
Hugs
 
Kim

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