Noël – Myfrenchkitchen

Oats and coconut cookies

1 c butter

3 tbsp honey

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

4 tbsp milk

1 c flour

4 c oats

3 c dessicated coconut

11/2 c sugar

salt

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.

Grease a baking tin, 30x35cm with butter and and line with brown paper.

Mix the flour, oats, coconut, sugar and salt.

Melt the butter and sugar . Add the milk and bicarbote of soda.

Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.

Press the mixture into the greased baking tin and bake for about 25 minutes until the top is golden brown. Cut into squares while warm and leave to cool beofre removing the squares from the baking tin.

Christmas in our house starts on 1 December. We play some christmas music while decorating the tree and finish off with a nice dinner en famille.

This December was busy. It was filled with sadness of saying goodbye to loved ones. But happiness made its appearance too, as life always tosses a coin with two sides.

As always, I love Christmas. This was out first year alone without the children, but it was just as much fun. I love Christmas and this year was no different, in spite of us being without out children. We prepared as if we were about to receive the whole world at out house. Of course our door stayed open to whomever wanted to enter.We made it warm and welcoming with our yearly Christmas tree, many candles to light for those we love and those we share the world with. And we gave special attention to our Christmas meals, preparing what we love and sat at our candle lit tables with so much gratitude in our hearts for all we receive in such abundance, especially the love.

We drove around to all the marchés de Noël and the fêtes de chataigne, the apple festival, the brocantes de Noël. We had coffee and croissants at our special places, we had a fantastic meal for our 33rd anniversary. We went for an apéro on horseback and stayed so late that we rode back in the dark, trusting the horses to find the road. We started a new tradition: handing a little cadeau de noël to our neighbours down the road. We cried crocodile tears listening to sad music while we remember, just because that’s what we do on Noël…in short, we had so much fun and laughter..I felt like a teenage girl with jumping emotions! Life was good to us this December.

Noël at coin Perdu