So this was one of those nights when everything seemed to get kinda messy and dinner was way late and I got that tension pain in the back of my neck and I tasted lots of stuff while I was cooking, so I wasn’t really hungry when the food was done. Plus I was cooking […]
We are having an extremely mild winter in WI – no snow, and the average temp is like 35 degrees, probably. The lakes are still open. All the municipalities around WI are saving a ton on not having to plow the roads – the figure given for for Madison on the local news last night […]
We’re having a merry little Christmas. John & Al are in California, so it was just me, Mark & Ethan opening presents. I got an immersion blender – the purple one – and 432 minutes of Julia on DVD. And some really pretty museum gift shop earrings. I took 3 big trays of cookies to […]
As Rach predicted, since the weather was fair, I got a huge turnout for the cookie party. People showed up immediately at the appointed start time – 5:30 – and I had dips & spreads out but nothing to dip or spread them on. I still had all the cookie platters under plastic wrap, cheeses […]
So this year the last cookie kind is the rainbow cookies. Baked them last night, and glazed them with chocolate and cut them into pieces today. Although of course, I will probably make Lora Brody’s rugelach for Chanukah next week, and I plan to make some cheesecake brownies – that aren’t sendable – for the […]
So, my grandmother, my mom’s mom, is of the main reasons I make all these cookies at holiday time, and send out goodie boxes to the family. She always did, and opening the box and finding out what was inside, what new recipes she’d tried this year, was always great fun – especially when my […]
An attempt at an annotated list of the cookie season – Sunday night (12/4): Moravian ginger thins, slice & bake doughs Monday morning (12/5): cornmeal anise biscotti Monday night (12/5): cranberry-pistachio slices, fruitcake fruit slices Tuesday morning(12/6): almond hazelnut biscotti Tuesday night (12/6): almond cinnamon stars, windmill Wednesday night (12/7): gember koekjes, orphan cranberry-pistachio slices, […]
Cinnamon stars I was really looking forward to making these cookies. I made them last year for the first time, although I’d been looked at the recipe for years, since it was part of a Swiss cookies feature in the December 1994 Gourmet magazine, and I’ve been making the Biberli from that issue probably since […]
I am suffering from cookie guilt – that feeling that I’m just not doing enough. On Thursday evening, I went to what I thought was going to be Recall Walker training, but turned out to be phone banking. Although not an unpleasant experience, for two reasons: 1) the technology has improved dramatically since the last […]