Another Gray Day

... but my favorite color is pink

What's Your Favorite Christmas Cookie?

I'm going to a cookie swap on Friday, and I can't decide what to bake. I simply love too many cookies.Chocolate and peanut butter, Iced Sugar, Gingerbread. The list of deliciousness goes on. And on. I have two entire cookbooks devoted to Christmas cookies.

Help me decide. What's your favorite? And who made them for you or where did you first have them?
I love my mom's thumbprint shortbread/pecan cookies. Some are filled with red or green buttercream icing, the rest pure chocolate. And they freeze beautifully (so I've been told by others with greater restraint).

Happy Baking!

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Scones and Sensibility signed copy contest

Enter to win a signed copy of Scones and Sensibility

Egmont USA December 22, 2009

Polly Madassa is convinced she was born for a more romantic time. A time when Elizabeth Bennet and Anne of Green Gables walked along the moors and beaches of the beautiful, wild land. A time when a distinguished gentleman called upon a lady of quality, and true love was born in the locked eyes of two young lovers.
But alas, she was not.
This however does not stop our young heroine from finding romance wherever she can conjure it up. So while Polly is burdened with the summer job of delivering baked goods from her parents bakery (how delightfully quaint!) to the people in her small beach town, she finds a way to force…um…encourage romance to blossom. She is determined to bring lovers, young and old, together…whether they want to be or not.
Scones
(Isn't the cover amazing?!)
And now for a new contest to celebrate another week closer to the release of Scones and Sensibility which is just 21 days away!!
Want to enter? 
1. follow author Lindsay Eland's blog by clicking the “follow” button at the bottom of the page: this gives you 1 entry
2. And because Scones and Sensibility has to do with matchmaking gone wrong, comment at the bottom with one or more movie, or literary couples that just would not go together at all!  2 entries
3. announce the contest on facebook, your blog, twitter or all three! 3 entries
Everyone who wants to enter must comment and let Lindsay know what they’ve done to support Scones so that she can give you that many more entries!
So the more of these you do, the better chance you have of winning!
This weeks prize is a signed copy of Scones and Sensibility, a copy of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, AND The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook by Kate Macdonald (this is an old book that I bought from a used bookstore, so there is a name in the front cover)!

Book Heaven

I ran into our local used bookstore the other night and left with a few gems.I get as excited about book stores, especially old/used book stores, books with cryptic names and addresses scrawled in the front, as much as my husband loves walking into an shiny new Apple store.Below is Johnny Tremain, Treasure Island, a few Nancy Drews, and a 1927 school edition of Captains Courageous. Oh, I just saw Ida B sitting on the shelf in one of the pictures. That's a great book, too.

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