Okay, so I’ve admitted to you that I don’t have any Christmas traditions, but rather we tend to shoot from the hip during the holidays. So I thought I’d share with you one of those impromptu jollies we did this year.
Now, if you know me very well, then you know we tend to lean more toward the healthy side, especially lately. So when I heard Katrina and Mom discussing the possibility of Sugar Cookies, I thought to myself, “No way am I eating tree-hugger Sugar Cookies; that’s just not right!”
So I inquired, “Are these going to be real Sugar Cookies, or some faux, wannabe, rabbit food cookies?”
“Nope,” they assured me. “These will be the real deal.” I’m talking Pillsbury here, people.
I was still skeptical until Katrina came home with a roll of bonafide Sugar Cookie dough, trans fats and all. It was beautiful! I mean, I’m actually going to get to eat those babies! So we threw a little flour on the counter top (the flour was, by the way, stone-ground, whole-wheat pastry flour) and started rolling them out. The rolling pin kept sticking to the dough, however, and the kids really wanted to touch it, so we just let them smoosh it with their hands.
We found a few cookie cutters in the depths of the cabinet. One was a Santa (which I thought looked more like a bird) and one was a reign deer. We had another one that was a heart on one side and a star on the other. I’m pretty sure I had seen the kids playing with these in the Play-Doh before. But germs aside, we used them to stamp out the cookies. It was funny to watch Christopher decorate the cut-outs. On at least one occasion he took the green sprinkles and turned them upside-down over a cookie, creating a small mountain of sugar. We tried to evenly distribute this mound to some other, well-deserving cookies, but this one was pretty much plastered.
After we sprinkled them, we M&M’d them. This was Joshua’s forte. We kept telling them to just set the M&M’s on top of the cookie, but again, they wanted to smoosh. So a lot of the cookies just looked like globs of dough by the time we got ready to bake them. No worries; it doesn’t affect the way they taste.
In just a few, short, agonizingly painful minutes the cookies were done. This was the first real cookies I’d had in ages! Everything else had been healthy, and sweetened with Stevia and whatnot. But not these puppies. Nope, these here were going straight to the love handles. But they’re going by way of my mouth first. And I was going to enjoy every second of it! By the way, M&M’s don’t melt in the oven, either. They really do only melt in your mouth. Strange, the physics of an M&M.
And then after the cookies we ate Spaghetti. Not a tradition, but I’d vote for it! :o)
~Jonathan
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