(I do most of the cooking, since my wife can't stand at a stove very long due to her MS).

"Usual" includes "spritz" cookies, molasses "rug" cookies, almond brittle, and sometimes fudge, which I usually undercook. Often we mail these to close relatives.

Our favorites are rollout cutout cookies, frosted with almond powdered sugar frosting and decorated. Lately our daughter has helped us with these when she's home, since I suck at the rolling-and-cutting out part. My wife is much better at it, and we manage it once in a while with her working at a table. Some years we mail these out too, to great acclaim. If I could figure out how to automate this recipe, we'd probably get rich on it.

Lately, my wife has been finding "cool" recipes on the internet, and I have to make those, too. Some of them are kind of weird, and almost all of them involve the kind of tedious preparation I don't like. But hey, I make them.

Toasted cinnamon almonds in a crock pot is the latest, along with persimmon-ginger scones.