It’s hard to believe 2021 is almost over! So many fun and wonderful things have happened this year and I am so looking forward to 2022 and spending more time with you all! From my family to yours, I wish you a very Happy New Year and all the best for 2022.
To Fruitcake or Not to Fruitcake?
It’s that time of year when fruitcakes abound and I, for one, love fruitcake! I was very happy to receive one from my daughter as a Christmas gift, especially since it was from the Collin Street Bakery who has been making fruitcakes for over 125 years. The bakery is also the subject of a documentary about how the bakery’s bookkeeper stole nearly 17 million dollars over several years. We watched the documentary on Discovery+ and it was pretty interesting.
You may be wondering how delicious was the Collin Street fruitcake! DELICOUS, that is if you like fruitcake. So are you a yea or nay to fruitcake?
Give Yourself a Break This Holiday Season
This holiday season, give yourself the gift of some time to relax. Hope this photo helps! Sit back, take a breath and enjoy! Doesn’t this photo of ships and homes visible from Harbourside Mall just make you feel joy?
Happy Holiday Wishes
I hope your holidays are going well so far. This is a photo of the Jupiter Island Lighthouse that I turned into a watercolor!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas
It’s time to finish all the food shopping and start all the cooking for Christmas Eve so I’ll be a little busy. I want to take this moment to wish you a very Merry Christmas with this throwback to Christmas 2020. Have a safe and healthy holiday!
Getting Ready for Christmas Eve!
It’s #WriteWed and I am writing on two different deadlines, but in between, I’m busy doing some cooking for Christmas Eve? Why you may be wondering? First, because I no longer have my big six-burner stove since hubby and I downsized. Next, because some things just taste way better when they get to meld together, like my yuca! Yuca (cassava in English) is a root vegetable very similar to a potato. You can make it in a variety of ways and we always make it boiled with a tasty citrus, onion, and garlic sauce for Christmas Eve.
We fry the leftover yuca and it makes delicious fries. Some interesting things about yuca: tapioca is made from the yuca root and it’s poisonous if you eat it raw or improperly cooked.
But when you cook it right: Nom nom.
I’m also busy cooking my black beans. They’re also better when you reheat them because they thicken up!
You can get my recipes for both the black beans and yuca at https://www.caridad.com/meet-me/cooks-treat/.
Treat Yourself This Holiday Season
If you’re like me for the holiday season, you’re in charge of most of the gift-buying, the cleaning, and the cooking! Whew! Maybe we should treat ourselves for all that hard work. What treat would you buy yourself? A book maybe? Well, if you love family sagas with independent women and a strong romantic element, please take a moment to check out The Family She Never Met. This is a book of my heart because it shares with you my family’s history and why we appreciate the freedoms and opportunities in this amazing country.
