By Jodee Weiland When my children were little, we had a very special Christmas Eve tradition each year. Of course, we did all the things most people do, like reading Christmas stories, putting out cookies for Santa, and more. But of all our Christmas traditions, my favorite was teaching my children to say thank you
By Jodee Weiland Almond Joy Magic Cookie Bars are a slightly different blast from the past in our home! When I was a little girl, my mom would make the Magic Cookie Bars recipe from Eagle Brand using sweetened condensed milk and chopped walnuts or pecans. This cookie bar recipe was developed in the 1960’s when
By Jodee Weiland Every year during the holiday season, mom spent the weeks before Christmas baking all the different traditional Italian cookies and some new recipes she found. One of her traditional cookie recipes was the Italian Bow Knot Cookies with Sweet Lemon Sugar Icing. We would watch her make the cookie dough, then take
