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white elephant fortune cookies

Looking Back: Originally posted on Dec 18, 2010.

Mike and I have hosted some sort of Christmas party since the year we began dating [2007]. Last year was the smallest – a dinner with close friends – as I was over 8 months pregnant and not up to putting on a big one!

A couple of the parties stand out in my memory and 2010 is one of those. I went baking crazy!

These were my favorite things I made though. There was a White Elephant exchange and I tried to think up a new way of drawing numbers, something to change things up a bit.

Each person received a fortune cookie – they got a yummy treat AND their White Elephant turn number.

And just for fun, I put some Christmas jokes in about 10 of them so the recipient could read them aloud to the group before they took their turn.

It was great fun.

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zucchini relish

Looking Back: Originally posted on Nov 4, 2011.

Original Text:

Are you a canner?  Are you starting to dip into all those fresh summer veggies you canned a few months ago?

Well, me…I’m just dipping into other peoples’ veggies.  :)

My mother-in-law makes great zucchini relish and we’ve gone through a couple jars already!  You can print the recipe  and let me know what you use it on.  Here are a couple of our favorites…