Fave Memory

Fave Memory - by Susan Long - A memory of what I would have considered the dream diet when I was a kid! Pizza, chicken nuggets dipped in honey, ICEE, pop, gumdrops, orange slice candies, caramel cubes, pixie sticks, kid cereal, kool aid, buttery popcorn and soft serve ice cream. I could have lived on this stuff! While it's not my preference these days... the thought of these foods take me back to special treats and celebrations of my childhood!

Fave memory. I was born near the American Air Base in Aviano and when I went to kindergarten an American soldier, father of one of my schoolmates, dressed as Santa Claus and gave small gifts to all the children. I received a decoration for the Christmas tree and my first candy cane (mint flavor, I will never forget it!). I hadn't seen or tasted one before and it was love at first sight and even now that I'm an adult, candy canes are for me the symbol of Christmas. Thanks again Santa Claus with fake beard and military boots ..

Circles within circles of candy, rectangles of toffee, and cylinders of striped sugar, all neatly lined up in shiny glass jars. Naughty but nice FOOD GEOMETRY!

Food Geometry
Candy, candy, candy! Dreamy chocolate, but even better with creamy peanut butter: Mom’s PB fudge, fruit slices in cherry, orange or lime flavors, candy buttons, caramel creams and taffy.

Feeling down? Need a “pick-me-up”? Deserve a treat? I have an idea ... grab a yummy lollipop from this beautiful candy dish! Lime, lemon, grape or cherry? Which one will you choose? Pick a cherry one for me, please.

President Reagan loved eating jelly beans after he quit smoking.

This recipe has been in our family since, at least, the 1940's when my mother helped her mother make it. We enjoy it every Christmas! I like the cupcake and mini muffin sizes most.

He's got to keep his strength up for cutting off goblin heads.