h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So....I hear my cookies were a success?

Are there any left?

They're almost gone - R. and I ate most of them last night while decorating the tree.

I just found out that I've managed to gain five pounds, so I'll probably have to curtial my cookie baking for a while.

No! Give up cookie baking? Never!

It's almost over for this year, but next year you should sign up for the TV Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies. Every December they send a cookie recipe a day around the holidays. So far this year they have sent some really good ones--citrus shortbread, honey-nut baklava, Swedish cardamom-butter cookies (I'm making those this week). You can sign up at (if you're interested ) at http://www.foodnetwork.com

Thanks! I will - I've been garnering recipes while I may, and I like the Food Network.

I think that perhaps I'll give up all other forms of food, and just live on cookies until the new year. Hm... Broccoli cookies?

Ah yes...or else you can try my tofu and lettuce cookies.

Ah... as long as they have bean sprouts on top.

My grandmother once made potato-chip cookies for me. It was the strangest thing I'd ever had... until she made me her WWII-style peanut-butter/salad dressing/lettuce sandwich.

What is it about grandmothers? Mine makes a special Jello salad for holiday dinners: carrot shavings and raisins encased in orange Jello and topped with Miracle Whip.

errr... yuck! What is it about people wanting to mix carrots and raisins together? We were always served that in the school cafeteria, and it always got pushed under the mashed potatoes.

I think it is a generational thing. It probably came out during the Depression, when people didn't have a lot of food in their pantry and had to throw things together in hopes of making a satisfying, nutritious meal. Or, we can squarely point the finger at nuclear fallout during the testing of the 40s and 50s. People (and their taste buds) were sick, sick, sick!

Hm, good point. I remember my grandmother would take out every leftover that she had in the fridge, whether it was a spoonful of corn or a little bit of that 'orrible vegetable medley, and serve it to us. If it didn't get eaten, it got put back in the fridge. *Everything* got saved around her house!

Heh. I am the daughter and granddaughter of "organ eaters"--these people eat livers, kidneys, sweetbreads, etc. My maternal grandmother actually gnaws on the neck of the Thanksgiving turkey.

Oh, yes... My grandmother would boil up the innards for giblet gravy - but the chicken liver never made it into the gravy. Me, I like the bits. Every once in a while I'll get a craving for gizzards and livers, so I'll fry up a batch in corn meal and cook up some black eyed peas to go with. It's that Southern thing, dontchaknow.

Never had sweetbreads, but my parents would get cow tongue and cook it up. Quite disgusting to look at, but pretty tasty.