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Bourbon (or Rum or Brandy) Balls – A Nifty Cookie That Needs a New Name
Holiday chocolate cookie-candies, everything easy except what to call them. These classic holiday goodies are almost perfect: Only one (processor) bowl to wash; no cooking; deeply chocolate flavored...
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Here Cookie, Here Cookie, Cookie Cookie Cookie
Or, to put it another way: Stop her before she bakes again. The decorated dark ones are gingerbread; pale stars are sugar cookies. Little round coconut covered jobs are rum balls; crescents are vanilla...
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Twelfth Night – Time to Recycle the Tree
As a general rule, recycling the tree starts being an issue after the holiday, when a use must be found for a large, suddenly useless dead conifer. But this year we had a large dead conifer well before...
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Baking King Cake, Reflecting on Recipes
My take on King Cake, seasoned with thyme and marjoram, liberally studded with Gruyere, sprinkled with Parmesan instead of sugar but maybe next year I'll dye the cheese in the classic icing colors:...
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Indecision Pie (Shaker Lemon and Cherry)
The lemon is underneath the cherries This floated into the kitchen because Jan 23 was National Pie Day*, an event that got a surprising amount of PR, given that every day is pie day in most people’s...
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One-Bowl Chocolate Cake and Ultimate Chocolate Toffee Crunch– Easy and Even...
Myself, I’m trying a blood orange version of the recent Shaker Lemon and Cherry Pie for Valentines Day, but this being a chocolate drenched holiday, I feel it incumbent to point you toward a couple of...
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After the Storm(s): Choosing – and Cooking – the Holiday Turkey
The turkey gets transferred to a cookie sheet and put in a VERY low oven to rest while I make the gravy. (Not wise to put it on the antique ironstone serving platter until the last minute.) Ok, not...
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Maple Pecan Pumpkin Pie – a Recipe from a Friend
Maple Pecan Pumpkin Pie – what is there to say but read on? As I was saying only a moment ago, here comes Thanksgiving. Time for the Turkey Roundup. Time also for the pumpkin pie – but the Squash...
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My Funny Valentine
That’s “funny” as in “peculiar.” Found it years ago in a junk shop, when I still had time/inclination to rummage about in the old postcards. The writing side is blank. There is a box for the stamp: One...
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Sunshine Cookies – A Sweet for All Seasons
Sunshine cookies, my new name for Figolli, with semi-traditional Figolli decoration. (It’s semi-traditional because there should be a foil-wrapped chocolate egg somewhere on each cookie. I...
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