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It's that time of the year again. What is your covid xmas plan ( if you have not been selling your baked products yet)? Mine is to make Xmas cookies, i have several cookie cutters that i bought from Walmart and so i plan to do just that. Maybe make the Minion Gingerbread house if i can muster enough strength, or a cookie xmas treee. I prefer the latter though since i think the xmas cookies will look good on a traditional xmas edible tree. Yum!

What recipe to use? I have three choices, Gingerbread, Chocolate and Vanilla Sugar Cookies. OR maybe all three flavors. 

Anyway, like most who have been self quarantining these days i do miss my usual routine before the Pandemic. Let us pray that this will be over soon and we  will get back to at least 85 % normal, maybe not that too confident that we set aside the usual precautions such as wearing your masks, alcohol and taking your vitamins. 

I honestly became more aware of my health these past few months, i am a cancer survivor so i know how to eat "healthy" but i increased my ginger and turmeric tea intake, green tea and ate more veggies compared to the last 3 years before the Covid started.

For baking lessons, hopefully by March, my new school will be operational and the Vaccine will be here. Email me for your questions or see me in my facebook account csherquefranca for baking updates...

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