{"id":14350,"date":"2020-01-10T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=14350"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T20:51:02","slug":"food-friday-christmas-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=14350","title":{"rendered":"Food Friday: Christmas Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kylene and I like to joke how I always have to talk about food whenever we chat.\u00a0 I love food.\u00a0 I used to only love desserts, but I&#8217;ve started to branch out and enjoy cooking and eating more interesting vegetables and main dishes and even soups.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier for me to eat healthier if I make delicious food that also tastes good.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to willingly reach for cauliflower at supper, but if I have some creamed garlic cauliflower in the fridge, then I will.\u00a0 But of course, that takes planning ahead of time.\u00a0 And quite a bit of trial and error.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve decided to do Food Friday posts, because I love talking about food.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure over the course of many weeks I&#8217;ll make my share of healthy AND unhealthy things, but that&#8217;s part of the fun.\u00a0 And if food is something you don&#8217;t care to read about, then feel free to skip my Friday posts.<\/p>\n<p>Topic for Today: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Christmas Baking!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We had our annual Baking day just before Christmas and this year we made 14 kinds of treats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=14353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14353\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cookies-2019-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cookies-2019-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cookies-2019-R-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cookies-2019-R-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>White chocolate marble fudge<\/li>\n<li>Peanut butter blossom cookie<\/li>\n<li>White chocolate cranberry muffin<\/li>\n<li>Gingerbread cookie<\/li>\n<li>Ritz peanut butter dipped cookie<\/li>\n<li>Pretzel with hershey kiss and M&amp;M<\/li>\n<li>Pretzel with rolo and pecan<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate pecan fudge<\/li>\n<li>Oreo ball dipped in white chocolate<\/li>\n<li>Grinch (rice crispy) hearts<\/li>\n<li>Pretzel with rolo inside<\/li>\n<li>No bake peanut butter ball dipped in chocolate<\/li>\n<li>Shortbread bites<\/li>\n<li>Puppy chow<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And this year we forgot to take a selfie together&#8230; so I had to take one by myself, haha!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=14352\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14352\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14352\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cookie-selfie-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cookie-selfie-R.jpg 576w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cookie-selfie-R-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylene and I like to joke how I always have to talk about food whenever we chat.\u00a0 I love food.\u00a0 I used to only love desserts, but I&#8217;ve started to branch out and enjoy cooking and eating more interesting vegetables and main dishes and even soups.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier for me to eat healthier if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14355,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350\/revisions\/14355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}