Feast of Saint Nicholas and Christmas Cookies

Most people of faith realize that the modern Santa Claus is actually a fictional character who evolved from a real person, Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. He was born during the 4th century, of Greek decent, in a fishing village in what is now Turkey.

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Oh Yum, It’s National Cookie Day

Another delicious National Day – National Cookie Day! I love the open ended attitude of the day – no particular type of cookie, just a cookie. My favorite cookies are sugar cookies. You can roll sugar cookie dough. You can make cut out cookies, drop cookies, thumbprint cookies. Best of all you can Brûlée the cookie.

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