Nothing says Christmas like the fabulous Pizzelles John's mom sends us each year from Columbus. A Pizzelle is a Italian wafer cookie, made with flour, butter, eggs, sugar and flavoring. They're baked individually on a special type of waffle iron, a labor of love.
Anise flavoring is traditional, and John always requests extra strong. Thank you, Mom, no one makes them like you. I remember when John gave little Nova her first Pizzelle, and she called it a "snowflake."
And how about this? No, not oranges, these are the home-grown lemons my sister Marji sends us from Las Vegas. I've never seen a lemon anything like this in a store, so thin-skinned, sweet and heavy. Thanks, Marji, they arrived in perfect condition! A pitcher of fresh squeezed lemonade has become a new Christmas day tradition around here.
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