OK, I know you're all "busy" with this "holiday" thing, but I have one more item to add to your to-do list: pick up the ingredients for this sandwich (there are only three), so that you can make it on Christmas morning.
There are a few things that you have to do in order to transform bread + bacon into The Perfect Bacon Sandwich. They are as follows:
This is mostly because the actual "house" part came from a kit, and someone more dextrous than I was responsible for assembly.
But I did decorate it! And it wasn't terrible, considering that I'm fairly sure it's the first gingerbread house I've ever decorated in my life (it's the second one I've made, but the first one never actually reached the point where it was standing upright enough to allow for the application of things like icing).
The "After":
This post was created in collaboration with Bed Bath & Beyond.
You know how every year I decide that I'm going to actually put some effort into my Halloween costume, and then every year end up procrastinating and digging the cat ears out of storage? And then I swear that the next year will be different, and it's not?
Same thing with holiday parties. When the season starts up, I always declare that this will be the year that I will throw a lovely holiday cocktail party with thematic drinks, Christmassy music, pretty decorations, and possibly even costumes (I usually declare this to Kendrick, who is kind enough to support my enthusiasm while sidestepping the fact that I never follow through on these plans). And then I don't do it.
I do not understand cookies that don't contain chocolate.
It's not that I'm such a huge chocolate person - I'm not - it's that chocolate just seems like a necessary component of a cookie. Sugar cookies, for example? Do not get. (Although the ones I made for last weekend's cookie party - the recipe is coming up later this week - were as excellent as a non-chocolate-containing cookie can be.)
So when I visited my in-laws in Ohio over Thanksgiving and my mother-in-law raved about these flattish, extremely boring-looking waffle cookies called "pizzelles", I wasn't all that excited. And then I tried one just because it was sitting right there next to me, and:
I LOVE this. For a last-minute holiday gift, for a hostess gift, for a just-because gift…for anything. And for fun - because it is so much fun, both to put together and (presumably) to receive (I gave these baskets to the friends who stopped over on Sunday afternoon for some cookie-decorating with their kids).
