Let the holiday baking begin!

Here is the list of cookies my daughter and I will be baking up this holiday season:  Chocolate-filled Walnut Cookies (they look like walnuts!), raspberry Linzers, checkerboard cookies, iced sugar cookies, biscotti, Spritz cookies, Thumbprints, and Russian Tea Cakes (sometimes known as Mexican Wedding Cakes).  Photos to follow!

On another note, the cooler weather has prompted me to get out the soup pot:  Cream of White Asparagus, Chicken Tortilla, Leek and Potato (just in the last 3 days!).  All three of these started with some leftover ingredient(s), and the Asparagus was a first course.  If you have leftover odds and ends in the fridge--think soup!