Reply #25: I freeze stuff for Christmas...but not so much for Thanksgiving.

[reyd reid reed]

I'll make the cheese ball ahead of time and freeze that and the sausage balls...but from Tuesday night until I sit down to eat on Thursday, I'm not out of the kitchen much.

Thing of it is...after all that cooking, by the time I sit down to eat it, I don't want it anymore.

Christmas kills me, though. For Christmas, besides dinner and all the pies and stuff, I make:

chocolate shortbread cookies
spritz cookies
sugar cookies
butter cookies (god...they melt in your mouth, literally)
lemon shortbread cookies
ginger cookies
sandies (those little powdered-sugar covered snowball-looking cookies)
ruby date bars
fudge (peanut butter, walnut, no-nut, and rocky-road)
chocolate covered cherries
chocolate-dipped peppermint patties
chocolate-dipped coconut patties
marzipan
a gingerbread house
peanut butter cups
peanut brittle
divinity
tamales (but those are for #1 son's birthday)
And whatever else catches my attention.

I'll see y'all in January....