super bowl

My only interest in SB Sunday is making sure my guys have the snacks they want and keeping our Bear out of thier hair. Anna and I made cutout football cookies and the veggie pizza and fruit pizza turned out fanstastic. I made white cookie dough for the fruit pizza and used the other half of the dough for the cut outs. I had for many years used the same sugar cookie recipe that was in my very old 1960's St. Croix Co Homemakers Ext the I inherited from my Step-Grandmother when I was 15. It was a good one, called Ice Box cookies; yep that well loved and much abused cook book was a very firm foundation that helped me make my first foray into the competive baking for the county fair. I love that book and am currently transferring my favorites to e-form cuz the old dear is yellowed and distintigrating. My meandering point is I had tried several of the cut out cookie recipes before deciding on the one I like but I had some how overlooked the standared called simply White Cookies. 20 years later I was a mom and soon to be wife my now husband wisftfully asked if I could possibly replicate the white cookies his grandfather used to make. the grandfather whose home we live in, and make lefse and cookies on at christmas time. Andy my son, was only 18 months old at the time and was perfectly content to bang on a kettle with a wooden spoon while I hunted for a recipe. I was inclined to take the trouble because Andy, my now husband had just gotten out of the hospital after a severe bout of sepsis brought on by another chronic condition. Very, very scary, but that is a tale for another time. To make my man happy I tried and after consulting my honey's mom I found one in my old St. Croix Co stand by that was prounced just right by husband and husband's mom alike, and husband's brothers. Now its the only sugar cookie I make and now am teaching my kids to make. Its a very mild cookie, soft or crisp depending on cooking time and blends perfecty with icings, fillings and even as a sub for shortcake during strawberry season. Even when hubby is feeling really crummy he can usually stomach a white cookie. Those cookies have graced christmas buffets, a large graduation cake, birthday cakes, a very memorable cookie party with several grade schoold and toddler neices, nephews and younger cousins, gift baskets, and even a wedding cake. I make a fondant out of marshmellows that blends so nicely with the white cookies. I can't take credit for that, it was someone else's recipe and just my elbow grease. We made a gift basket last year when really, really broke for a classmate of my son's. He was mortified, but I have on hand all the right stuff for a goodie basket. We made footballs, stars, and a trophy white cookies and colored Marshmellow fondant known as MMF and decorated the footballs with icing stripes. He was still unhappy even though it looked great when we were done but it turned out to be a hit at the party. Now, the Saints just won the super bowl, my guys are happy and I have to put kids to bed!