DigoryKirke: Wow. You made me hungry with that. LOL. The toffee sounded delicious! And the pie, hope to try one next time. I really haven't tried pies... the ones like apple, peach, and pumpkin.

Fantasia kitty: Clam chowder? Wow, never tasted one. Is it delicious???

Clam chowder is a soup made up of lots of little clams rather than one big clam. Yes, it's quite good. There are two types my mom makes. One is called Boston Clam Chowder and this is the much more common one found here in the States. It's a milk based soup and nice and creamy.
The other is Manhattan Clam Chowder and it's got most of the same ingredients in it except it's a tomato based soup instead.

The women always end up really fat, and since we squeeze the dough through one of those garlic-squeezer things to make hair, we always end up making the 'rock star' gingerbread man with his hair standing straight up.

That is awesome.

I really haven't tried pies... the ones like apple, peach, and pumpkin.

I am horribly uncultured, and I don't know what types of ingredients you'd have in your country. But if you would like to try a pie sometime, I would be more than happy to share a recipe with you.

So I made my first rather major error with my Holiday Dessert cooking this year. I was making some cookies last night that sounded interesting and basically they were a oh... I guess I'll call them a Crunch Cowboy Cookie on the outside and they were filled with a chocolate cream cheese frosting. Well, the recipe called for two packages of Cream Cheese, but I failed to see that it called for 3oz packages and I used 8 oz packages instead. It still turned out good (if you like cream cheese ) but I have a LOT of frosting left over as you can imagine. I think I'll just get some graham crackers to use up the rest of the frosting on.

Clam chowder is an iffy proposition to me. I will not eat the New England variety (creamy stuff is...ick. Sorry, mental block ) but kind of enjoy the Manhattan variety. But even if you get good chowder you're gonna end up eating at least a little sand.

fantasia_kitty: LOL. Pie really isn't much made here. There are some who buy or bake them, but mostly, we eat sweet ham. But I am more than glad to take a bite of some pie.