I should probably apologize for posting photos of my cat. Because, hi? Cat photos? What kind of intellectual am I? Also, it’s really solidifying (EVEN more!) my status as an old lady inside.
But you know, she’s a good-lookin’ cat. She really is. Handsome. Camera-ready.
For a long time, I told myself that I wasn’t a cat person. But I can’t resist her charms.
“What kind of bird are you?”
(Trailer on YouTube here, if that embedded video isn’t working for you.)
This is the third in a series of recipes shared by my grandmother Joanie.
My great-grandmother (my grandfather’s mom) was known as Muzzy. Her full name was Orpha Marie Campbell Wilder, and I think her peers knew her as Marie. But when she had her first grandkids, they struggled with saying “Grandmother” — and thus “Muzzy” became her name. Today, I’m sharing her chili sauce recipe, a relish-like blend of spices and veggies that will make your kitchen fragrant and your meals flavored with Midwestern comfort. The photo above is Muzzy as a young woman. Look at her, rocking the skinny tie with a skirt!
I could see a dusting of snow on my deck as I put together these sweets, so I’ve re-dubbed them “first snowfall cookies.” It was, after all, the first powder of 2012. The recipe calls them Lemony Cream Cheese Cookies, and I can enthusiastically recommend them. They’re what you’d get if you managed to get the flavor of cheesecake into portable cookie form.
We had a silly, glowing, bubbly night. Let’s hope all of that carries into 2012.
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