Dreamskies

Once upon a time there was a Polish woman who married a Southern man. This woman introduced her little sister to this man's little brother and soon the two married. The Polish women grew up in Chicago and then followed their husbands back home to the DEEP southern United States. And soon you had Polish women who were influenced by Chicago introduced to southern cooking. Needless to say, there was always an adventure in the kitchen. Several years into the future, a sweet southern gal (that's me) met this handsome southern guy and got married. Now this sweet southern gal who didn't know much about life outside of the DEEP south was now hearing words like Kolacky and Hoska as well as eating and enjoying these funny sounding foods. A new world opened up for this sweet southern gal's taste buds. However, it would be years later before she tried her own hand making these funny sounding foods. Kolacky is basically a thumbprint cookie filled with fruit or poppy seed filling. In honor of my husband's Polish heritage, I created a shortbread thumbprint cookie which I call Dreamskies. (Because they are a DREAM to eat and most last names of Polish people in our family end in SKI). Cookie Swap Chinese Take Out Container Front The creation was due to the 2005 cookie swap in which I participated. I made these cute little containers to fill with my cookies for the exchange. And since then I've made a couple more batches for Ron's work, well only one batch made it to his work and that was this Sunday's batch. I'm told they were delicious and gone by noon. Chinese Take Out Container Back Ready for the Oven Fresh from the Oven Ready to Eat