So I have the ovens all full of meringues – Mark’s, too – since they’re the required gluten free cookie kind for my cookie demo at the Monona Public Library, thus getting a little bit of time for some cookie catch up. I guess it was a productive weekend – but that didn’t stop me […]
I seem to have a tradition, at this point in cookie season – or actually on Nov. 30th, which is sometimes earlier and sometimes later in cookie season – of writing a post with “wimpy” in the title. See 2011 and 2010. In 2009, I didn’t post on Nov. 30th, although on Dec. 1 I […]
Tonight the trouble began when I couldn’t find the anise extract that I bought on Monday morning. To make it even more irritating, the receipt was still in the bag with the extra flour also acquired on that shopping trip, and the anise extract was clearly listed there – and it cost $4.33, so on […]
Cookie season has begun, although it seemed like in fits and starts over the weekend. Because we had Black Friday Thanksgiving, on Thursday, I made the fruitcake gems and Simnel cake. Friday was devoted to Thanksgiving cooking, although I did bake the turkey cookies and thought the were a really good batch this year. On […]
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 […]