Heterodoxy

It started as a Christmas-time gag, and then it became a runningChristmas joke. For a couple of years I used photos of it on most of the Christmas letters I sent out…but not all. My wife told me just before I mailed them that the ones going to her very religious relatives had to have …

Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Poppy Seed

I bake at this time of year. It was my "don't eat and drive" fruitcake earlier this month. But just before Christmas, it's Grandma's Poppy seed bread. Every Christmas and Easter, she'd make a large batch of the long loves filled with poppyseed filling; especially at Christmas, it wasn't the holiday without her specialty.More than …

Poppyseed

All that's left now is wrapping. Today's principal job was making the Carreras family poppyseed bread. My grandmother brought the tradition with her from Hungary and baked many loaves for the family every Easter and Christmas.In our house, it wasn't Christmas without them. But Grandma was not the recipe-sharing type. If you asked her, she'd …

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House

The Poppyseed Roll

So now comes the question. How vague should I be about the secret?