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 […]
On this same night, November 30th, one year ago in cookie season, I allowed as how I was being a wimp – knocking off early. But it looks as if I made three kinds of cookies that night (or at least glazed a kind, and mixed a dough, and baked one kind) – and tonight […]
A year ago October, I went to Pittsburgh for a metadata conference, and stayed an extra day to wander around and visit, including a visit to my parents’ grave. Where I was quite surprised to find that they’d never set the marker for my mom. Even though we’d paid the cemetery some $4000 to open […]
First cookie kind: These are the ones that are kind of a sleeper – just a plain brown bar cookie, with a lemon & powdered sugar glaze that tastes mostly like raw cornstarch and too-sharp lemon at first. They age and mellow and the combination gets pretty special. I also made these fruit balls, that […]