My mom and I talk a lot about food. I mean a lot. Sometimes my mom will list everything she ate that day or read me a recipe over the phone. She loves describing food to me, which I hate, because I usually become hungry by the time she is done. And since she does not live close to me I can not go over and get it. For months now she has been going on and on about these cranberry orange cookies....telling me over and over again how good they are(she keeps having senior moments and forgets that she has told me how good these are). So before she came here this weekend I told her, for the love of Pete bring the stinking cranberry orange cookie recipe. So as you can clearly see the cookies were indeed made and I must say that they are tasty and agree with my mother that they are good.  To me they say winter(they are from a Christmas magazine after all) but my mother makes them year round. The original recipe said macadamia nuts, but we make ours with pistachio because we both agree they go … [Read more...]