Here at www.CookiesbyDave.com, we pride ourselves in providing original content on a daily basis.  If you had as many writers on staff as I do, you would ask them to keep on churning, too.  Well, any who, there are two days per year, where I usually repeat a theme.  The first is June 5th, the anniversary of the day that I met my beautiful, talented, and very forgiving wife.  The other is New Year’s Day.

You see every year on New Year’s Eve, I like to make “Wait ‘Til Next Year” Meringues (found on page 70 of my cookie cookbook).  I gather the kids around the oven and announce, “Kids, these cookies take the rest of the year to bake.  I shall put them in the oven, turn it off, and the cookies will be ready to eat next year.”  Sure the joke has grown old, but that’s the beauty of it.  All traditions are old.  All traditions are kind of stale.  Traditions, however, ground us.  They remind us of who we are and where we came from.

Sure my kids groan every New Year’s Eve, as my narrative unfolds, but they certainly are there every New Year’s Day morning to gobble up the meringues.  Stale tradition, fresh meringues.  That’s a winning combo.

Happy New Year from www.CookiesbyDave.com.  Remember, 2018 is going to be a great year for a cookie  :0)

The more things change…

The Paulsen Boys – Happy New Year 2010!

The Paulsen Boys – Happy New Year 2018!