Merry Christmas, everyone!!
I’m squeezing one more holiday treat in here before everyone’s New Years Resolutions kick in and suddenly Pinterest is full of kale and weird cleanse recipes. It’s a sad time, people. Let’s hang on here, in this safe place where you can eat all the truffles you want.
As I mentioned last week, holiday baking is one of my absolute favorite part of the holidays. I’m talented at very few things in life besides baking, so I have to take advantage of the time of the year that it really comes in handy! Unfortunately, my other talent (reading young adult books at an alarmingly fast pace) never really comes in handy, so this is all I have, people.
Christmas is almost here, and along with present-opening, stocking-stuffing, and entire days spent in footie pajamas comes hours and hours of baking and cooking to shower friends and family with a whole lot of holiday lovin’. There is nothing I love more than baking up gifts for everyone I love, and then sharing a wonderful meal with my family on Christmas. I LOVE living in the kitchen around the holidays. Even when my “home sweet home” is 75 degrees and sunny in Southern California, all-day-every-day cooking and baking is an absolute must.
Oftentimes, I wish I could be one of “those” people. You know the person I’m talking about. The kind of person that has homemade chocolate chip cookies in their cookie jar, instead of Chips Ahoys. The kind of person that makes a family-size lasagna or pot of chili and freezes the rest for meals throughout the coming weeks, rather than stuffing themselves and their boyfriend to the gills, then eating it for the next 3 days straight until neither of them can look at aforementioned once-delicious family-style meal. Too real?