By Carie Moore
This year I made the usual four Christmas cookies. I randomly make spritz, and I wanted to try rosettes, but I figured I better not push it and leave that for 2021!
- Haystacks with various flavored chips and fiber one cereal sticks (so I can claim they’re healthier)
- PB Ritz Chocolate Sandwiches (with low-fat PB and crackers-again much healthier)
- Pretzels with almond bark
- M&M/Reese’s pieces Sugar Cookies
People go to great lengths in a “normal year” to showcase their baking abilities to family and friends; that is not me by any means. Otherwise, the kids get into them, and being around them for 2 solid weeks plus this COVID stuff, I don’t need them any “sweeter.”
We often focus on the good food we get from agriculture’s farms and ranches, but let’s face it, there is some really good (not so good for us) food, like Christmas goodies, that ag generously contributes to. Perspective, always look at the positive side!
- Eggs - Poultry Farms
- Butter, Crème, Milk - Dairy Farms
- Brown/White/Powdered Sugar/Molasses - Sugar Beet Farms
- Flour/Oats/Canola Oil - Grain Crop Farms
- Nuts/Nut Butters - Nut Groves
- Fruits - Orchards
- Honey/Pollination of Fruits/Nuts - Honey Bee Industry
- Flavorings/Extracts - Plants and Animals
- Chocolate - Cocoa Farms
I’m not sure what holiday treats can be made without something in them coming directly from a farm of some kind. Go into 2021 eating a cookie, remembering the reason for the season, and thanking a farmer!
Carie M. Moore is the VP of Towner County Farm Bureau and is VP of Communications for American Agri-Women. She farms near Rocklake, N.D., and personally shares their farm life in “Tractor Rounds and Coffee Grounds"
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