Since I am so cheap, I never send my husband’s clothes or mine out to be dry cleaned if I can launder them myself. My husband is a school principal, so he wears dress clothes every day and the laundry piles up fast. I always seem to get behind on ironing and end up with a mountain of clothes that need to be done. I have a trick for looking forward to the chore: watching television while I iron. I always watch something that I don’t necessarily watch during the week—not junk exactly, but not cerebral dramas, either. Think a marathon of America’s Next Top Model or those Discovery channel shows about medical mysteries. Well, this past weekend, I watched something that I don’t normally: QVC. I stopped when flicking by the channel because they were demonstrating and selling Christmas stuff--toys, decorations, and even food. I was in the mood to zone out of ironing and think about the holidays.
With Christmas on my mind, I found myself wanting Christmas cookies. And when I get something in my mind, I usually have to have it. So, I put together a batch of my favorite Christmas cookie, Mexican Wedding Cakes. I love them because they just melt in your mouth. I love them so much that I even had some at my wedding, despite the fact that I am not Mexican (though I really wonder if these are served at traditional Mexican weddings) and my groom was (and is) Jewish. I think Mexican Wedding Cakes make anything, possibly even ironing, better.
There are only 85 days until Christmas. What cookies are you planning to make this year? Do you make your "Christmas cookies" only at Christmas time, or all throughout the year?
By the way, I have already decided what I want for Christmas.