I made all six kinds I thought I would on Sunday, more or less, but I’m not so happy at how everything turned out. The chocolate spritz are fine – I had a little trouble with the cookie gun, getting the handle end unscrewed in order to refill it – but compared to the pistachio, […]
I contend that Martha Stewart booby traps her recipes – it’s usually not in the ingredients. It’s usually in the method – she gives an instruction that causes the recipe to fail, like the recipe for baby artichoke quiches, where she said to mix the wine & cream for the sauce together and heat them […]
I’ve been feeling totally overwhelmed by the brief the cookie season this year, contrasting against other years when I had more done by this date, and even two weekends in cookie season without one of them being Thanksgiving. Then some phrases started creeping into my mind, like, “Maybe I can skip the pine nut macaroons […]
We had 25 for Black Friday Thanksgiving – it was pretty astonishing. I made the turkey and the stuffing, and garlic mashed potatoes (Megan and Max peeled, I just mashed), and gravy, and corn pudding – which was a really good batch this year. Instead of my chipotle lime brulee’d sweet potatoes, I made a […]