That title was supposed to be “Soft start” – the phrase that kept coming to my head when I was feeling too tired Monday night to undertake the biberli. As in, “Can I have a soft start to cookie season and just make one kind tonight?” I made the fruit cake gems, and glazed […]
Now is the uneasy time when the house is stuffed with expensive cookie ingredients, and it’s all on me to transform all the butter, sugar, flour, nuts, chocolate, dried fruits, almond paste, and candy into cookies. I made the dough for the jam cookies on Friday night. Saturday afternoon, I got it out to soften […]
This morning I tried a recipe for carrot jam, from the most recent Food & Wine Magazine. I had macerated the carrots over night with sugar and lemon juice and cinnamon sticks and whole cloves. I started cooking the whole mess while I was doing laundry. The recipe said 40 minutes, or til the carrots […]
Cookies for the homeless, cookies from the new cookie gun, and cookies from Pittsburgh. I took a big pan (foil chafer liner courtesy of my office holiday party, which I missed since I was home cooking party food on Friday 12/14) of cookies to the regular Sunday meal for the homeless in Madison. When I […]
So – this year’s cookie party. Everyone came early – at 6:00 the place was packed. I think it’s just the scheduling. Because it was a Saturday and x number of days before Christmas – everyone had somewheres else to go. Party hopping, or going to a seasonal show. Al had gone to Target earlier […]
Here’s a quick gallery of some of the cookie shots I have not posted since last Tuesday. The party was last night. I’ll tell you all about it Real Soon Now™ Gotta go start stuffing cookies into ziploc bags for shipping.
I was in an all-chocolate mode – chocolate spritz and world peace, but somehow it just wasn’t a good night. I didn’t feel so good, and got a bit of late start because I went out Waisman’s to pick up our pork. David & Molly & their kids raised two pigs, Mazel and Tov, and […]
The spoon cookie heartbreak (and my day job) meant that the little spoons were my only cookie kind of Thursday. On Friday we went to Chicago for a whirlwind weekend – good deal on a Kimpton Hotel, dinner at the Publican, and Trombone Shorty at Park West. The country ribs, basically a pork chop, were […]
I got up early today to make the dough for the spoon cookies, and decided to multiply the recipe X 5, instead of 4, in the hope of getting a few more of these little charmers. This meant 10 sticks (2 1/2 pounds) of butter, and I was getting mixed up as to whether my […]