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Dear Reader,
Enjoy one of my favorite holiday columns.
I cleaned out my refrigerator yesterday. It was still filled with "holiday" leftover items. Some of them I shouldn't have bought because we didn't even eat them, and we never do, but I keep buying them every Christmas season anyway.
I guess it's just hard to break old habits. I have this picture of Christmas in my mind and it includes certain foods from my childhood. French Onion dip, vegetable dip, cheese, salami and crackers, all displayed on a Lazy Susan accompanied by an assortment of vegetables for dipping into those dips, and a homemade pecan pie. These were the foods that were on the table every year at Christmastime.
But now there aren't enough of us in my family to eat all those holiday foods, and no one eats dip and absolutely no one in our family eats pecan pie.
So why do I buy these things?
I don't understand it. But as soon as they start piping Christmas music into the supermarket, I head straight to the chip and dip aisle.
The pecan pie?
My Grandpa Hale loved pecan pie. His birthday was the day before Christmas, and he'd start eating his favorite pie on the 24th and was still eating pecan pie until New Years Day. Grandma baked two pies and it was a once a year treat. I don't remember anyone else in our family eating pecan pie, but even long after Grandpa passed away, my mother kept baking his pie, and I've kept up the tradition.
But I did make a little bit of progress this year, because Grandpa Hale also loved chocolate covered cherries--last year I bought three boxes--this year I walked right by.
*Pecan pie update: tastes change and there are now five people in my family who devour the pecan pies.
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