Christmas food plans begin as early as summer for Terri Ballard, executive director of the Liberty Center Association for the Arts, and as soon as Halloween for kid-friendly, bite-sized treats.
Her Christmas Eve appetizers, tamale corn cakes, are made in the summer when the corn is fresh from the garden. It is frozen until Christmas.
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