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Today’s holiday adventure is all about wrapping. I don’t know about all of you, but we have been collecting wrapping paper for years and have a crazy collection of thirty or more rolls of colored, festive wrap that goes on forever. There is the tissue thin recycled type. There is the heavy double sided, the single sided with cut lines, the plain back and the metal foil. There are the…

It must be getting close to Christmas because I have two pots of rouladin bubbling in my kitchen. My father drove over this morning and we set up an assembly line with Shawn and my dad and I to get the rolls made. It went off like clockwork, with a minimum of mess and drama and it only took us two hours to get them made. We missed my Mom…

There are many foods that get associated with the holidays, at least in my mind. There is the turkey, goose, ham and roast of beast, depending on where you are, determines what beast you manage to roast. But the sides that go with all of that are also fascinating. Sweet potatoe pie, corn pudding, pecan encrusted chicken with orange glaze. Candied pecans, cookies of all kinds, but particularly spritz and…