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homemade butter cookies
eggnog with a little brandy
espresso with a shot of Grand Mariner
and the smells of ginger and nutmeg

fudge that melts in your mouth
a never-ending supply of frosted sugar cookies
peanut brittle! I could live on peanut brittle, I think
5-pound candy made by my dad's boss
Chocolate Charlie which, to my knowledge, is only sold in Northern Indiana around South Bend
green bean casserole

gingerbread
latkes
egg nog
peppermint

1) peppermint/candy canes
2) tangerines~always stocking stuffers when I was a child. The aroma in the air just screams Christmas to me.
3) mixed nuts~another stocking stuffer, but there was always a big bowl of them, too. Seems like we sometimes spent hours trying to get a handful of nutmeats out of those babies since we always had the ones still in the shell
4) ham baked with cloves, brown sugar,pineapples and cherries
5) banana bread
6) chocolate oranges~a new tradition I have with my own kids
7) chocolate~fudge, hot cocoa, assorted Russell Stover/Whitman's/Candy Cupboard and the handful in my stocking
8) snow cream~usually by the middle of Decemeber it was cold and snowy enough to get a bowl of fresh snow to make this with my grandmother
9) fruitcake or cranberry orange bread~ for some odd reason these two are somehow always associated together in my mind. I love them both.
10) mincemeat pie~made with my grandmother's homemade mincemeat. She always told me that this was a traditional dish to have for Christmas since the mixture was supposed to somehow represent the gifts that the kings brought to Jesus.

peppermint
Florida citrus

My mom would always make homemade beef jerky(note to self: get that recipe!) and peppermint bark.

Cinnamon
Cloves
Ginger
Sugar

And always on Christmas Eve - the aroma of the Feast of the Seven Fishes cooking away. Could be broiling lobsters with savory crab stuffing or a wall of garlic from any of the other dishes.

My dad used to say he had to make baccala fritters in his own house "because the stink has to be in the walls. It's not Christmas unless the stink is in the walls." Not quite how I'd phrase it but I got the message :D.

cloves
cinnamon
bayberry
chocolate
gingerbread

We called it snow ice cream, and yes, it's made with fresh snow. Add milk, vanilla, stir and EAT QUICKLY.

Yes, the smell of tangerines - or clementines, as they're now marketed; I think they're slightly different, but not to my nose.

Now, January - January is the taste of grapefruit.

Peppermint and gingerbread and all sorts of baked goods!

Hillary
Chew on That

Satsumas from a little farm not too far aways from home
chocolate mint brownies
marzipan bars
my neighbor's angel sugar cookies
weird peanut butter cereal stuff
stollen