Since my days building holiday commercials for small market television stations Christmas at the Schommer house is celebrated with an anti-Madison Ave spirit. Santa would start his 4pm broadcast from KCFW-TV studios just before Thanksgiving 58 minutes of kids and live toy spots 5 days a week right up to Christmas. The spare time was filled by writing, shooting and editing holiday spots for local businesses sometimes as many as 5 a day. My hatred of christmas music has subsided but not the distain for Chri$tma$$. We don’t avoid holiday shopping but it’s usually about ingredients for a good meal rather than the next thing-o-matic. Our tree has only a small collection of packages but we hold to some holiday traditions. Like coco drop cookies, not your typical christmas cookie but ooh soo good.
Started using a small scoop this year and the convection oven so the finished cookies are uniform with a crisp shell around browny like centers all topped with burnt butter icing. Family members will recognize the green cookie bowl in this shot and will no doubt think of all the cookies that have come out of that bowl.
Parchment paper made it easy to drop spoons of chilled dough and then just feed the oven. This also allowed the kitchen to fill with other holiday aromas like ginger bread, and marshmallow fluff fudge. The shrimp are marinating in the fridge so I believe we are up on tradition and that means ready for company and stocked up on holiday goodies … js
I didn’t do the cookies this year but do have the shrimp going… amazing what we carry on through our lives.
We started baking Christmas cutout cookies when the girls were little.. that will take place this afternoon. Got to have cookies for Santa! Oh, and we’ve been eating shrimp for the last 2 days..
Merry Christmas!