Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes

Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes, One Recipe – Many Variations
By Karen Ciancio

There are so many Christmas cookie recipes around but often so
little time to bake during the busy holiday season.

The solution? A great tasting basic cookie recipe that quickly
and easily turns into such a variety of easy to make Christmas
treats, friends and family will think you poured over all your
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Holidays and Unwanted Weight Gain

The holiday season is a special time of year that brings together family and friends for holiday celebrations of good cheer and lots of wonderful abundance of food and drinks. There are delicious desserts of pies and cookies, body warming hot beverages like hot chocolate and spiced cider, and lavishing meals of ham and turkey along with all of the fixings. Of course we can't forget those many times of… Continue reading

Easy Christmas Cooking

 

Christmas is a hectic time of year. Many families find that they barely have time to breathe much less cook dishes to bring for this or that function. For this reason there are several great cheat dishes that can be purchased and prepared for the occasions and very few people will be the wiser. Though Christmas may be about being with friends and family it is not about broadcasting
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Traditional Christmas cooking

 

Christmas is a time of year when different families around the world will get together and observe traditions that are the same for them year after year and yet vastly different from those that other families share around the block. There are very few universal Christmas traditions any more and there is nothing wrong with that. In America however, there are some items that many people consider traditional holiday
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Christmas Dinner Ideas

 

When the stockings have been filled then emptied and after Santa has made his appointed rounds families around the globe begin the preparations (or in some instances continue them) to prepare the family feast that is most often associated with Christmas Dinner. There are many traditions around the world though sadly far too few families have the opportunity to experience some of the rich traditions and delicious foods that
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Developing Your Own Holiday Food Taditions

Every holiday season, many of us look forward to eating special treats made using long-held and cherished family recipes.  Many families have holiday food traditions they hold dear.  There are those who cannot imagine a holiday without Grandma’s date pinwheel cookies or Great Uncle Peter’s cornbread stuffing.  Year after year, we enjoy these treats and use them as a way to stay connected with our families and personal histories.

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Holiday Eating – It Doesn’t Have To Make You Fat

The holidays are here. This usually means that people are given dozens of opportunities to eat a lot of great holiday treats and traditional foods with friends, family, and coworkers. This also usually means we have entered the season of gaining weight for most everyone.

Who doesn't gain weight during the holidays? It almost seems like an annual tradition for the majority of Americans to gain 5 to… Continue reading