Aww...shucks :blush: I know it's not true but I'll take the compliment. :D Hihihi....Anyways, you want some Xmas cookies, big guy? Send me a pm and verify your address. I don't want someone else enjoying your cookies. :p:

why the hell not?

Because unlike Alan Richman, she is female and therefore will have to live on coffee and nicotine if she is on TV - especially on a food show. We want her around for more years than that.

But hey, when she becomes an old crone she can do a down-home cookery programme, because older ladies are allowed to spread a bit.
Well - when I say spread a bit I mean being a week away from actual malnutrition.

I want Lola videos on YouTube though.
I would watch faithfully every week and marvel at her appearance, accent (we've spoken, it's cute), cooking, decorating. And get sis in on the act too. Or maybe not, as we all know how special Lola is, but she seems to think her sister is better. Nope!

another good suggestion!!

Do it, Lola! Just try one, see what happens. :)

No, try 52.
Hey, start small ;)

You mean make videos of me baking cookies? Hmmm...I'm even lazy taking pix, much less making videos. :p but how to do it, make my sis be the camera man?

Btw Sundae, you crack me up. Hahahahahahaha.......

Or a tripod.

I have a tripod. I'll think about it. :)

I did mean Adam Richman by the way.
I know Alan Richman is a very talented man, but he wasn't who I had in mind when writing.

Is that the Man v Food chap?

Aye.
He was on Fighting Talk (11.00 Staurday on BBC Radio Five with Colin Murray - recommend) the other week. Spurs fan, really knows his football.

Apols, just had to ETA because I had the two Northern Irish 5 Live presenters mixed up.
Well, they all look the same don't they...

I love that guy.

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Happy tears in my eyes as I'm making my great-grandmother's famous Christmas cookies today. She brought the recipe with her from Spain. She passed away in 2000 and my grandmother passed away in 2008. My family thought the recipe was lost, but I got it from my grandma before she passed. Through lots of research I was able to closely mimic the wine the recipe calls for, and so now I'm having these cookies for the first time since 2006. Lots of very happy memories, here.

What a wonderful tradition this is and will be for your family and children, Choco. It's a great thing to preserve and pass on heritage recipes and family memories.

The cookies look delicious! Is it a sweet wine, a type of sherry or port, that the recipe calls for? What is the overall taste? The cookie part looks rather like shortbread. I'm not asking you to divulge a secret recipe, just interested; I love learning about taste combinations and especially how traditional recipes combine ingredients, and why.