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 […]
…or, I tried. I had big ideas about using up lots of odds & ends from the fridge, in various dishes – but I still ended up throwing food away – UN-characteristically, at least I hope. I made the last of the caramelized onions from the galettes into onion dip with creme frâiche and sour […]
Trying to create detente between instagram & Tumblr. They’re still not really talking – I can email photos from instagram to Tumblr, but I don’t like the way the post looks as well as I like a simple URL post on Tumblr – see below. But at least I can post, and use all those […]
Yesterday I got home from work a little early, and decided to do some cooking. Sometimes when you try to do too much …. I tried this Chez Pim pie crust for a cherry pie with the cherries we brought back from our Washington Island trip. And I read “8 oz. butter” as one stick […]
We are going to have an AFS student this school year, a 17-year old Italian girl. We picked her up yesterday afternoon. I made some dinner for us – pasta with a fresh tomato sauce, and cucumber sour cream salad. Nothing came out quite the way I wanted it to. The basil in the pasta […]
In 2009, I made John a salted caramel chocolate tart for his birthday. I think it was the cover recipe in Saveur that month. It was good, but I got the caramel just a little too dark, and I never made another. Today, just a few days away from John’s birthday 2011, I was browsing […]
Since it’s the week before Christmas, I went to work-related holiday parties the last two nights. The first was at the home of two of the younger faculty members in my department, so it was a collection of mostly 30- and 40-something professional people, some in their 20s, a fair number of kids in the […]
Monday I had a meeting, so I didn’t start baking till close to 8 p.m. I made the Moravian Ginger Thins, but I don’t think they’re as thin as last years, which seems odd to me since last year I was rolling with broken thumb. I decided to make a double batch of the rainbow […]