Mostly trying to catch up with friends, give cookies away, and eat and drink a little too much, in a typical holiday fashion. Saturday my Dad would’ve been 99 years old if he was still here having birthdays – he stopped in 1998 at 77 (though the metadata in this Pitt Archives photo is incorrect; … [Read more…]
26 December is the British holiday Boxing Day, which is kind of the leftovers holiday – wealthy families would give the servants the day off to go home and see their families, and give them Christmas boxes, with bonuses and leftover food to take with. There’s also the Boxing Day sandwich, turkey and stuffing and … [Read more…]
… cookie fairy escapades, grading, working remotely constantly, and all the way up to Christmas Eve. Sunday morning after the party I washed the last serving platter at 9:37. I made this cranberry ginger cake from Milk Street Kitchen that I had had a vision of serving warm with mascarpone whipped cream at the party, … [Read more…]
So, I think it was a slightly smaller party than last year. On the one hand, I got a lot of regrets from friends who almost always come. On the other hand, a few people who I’ve invited for years, who’ve never been able to make it, showed up for the first time. I was … [Read more…]
I must be done because I’m out of containers to put cookies in. It’s Wednesday and the party is Saturday. I made two last cookie kinds today, although they’re not actually all the way done – the almond rainbow bars will need to glazed and cut in the morning, and the teeny hazelnut baci – … [Read more…]
Pics now, explanations later. No time; pics will just have to stand on their own! And that’s not counting Sunday, ruggelach and bar cookies. And somewhere’s in there, Saturday afternoon, I think, I made the Rose’s Crescents, and what I am now calling pecan snowballs, trying to be culturally sensitive, avoiding other names with a … [Read more…]
When I should be baking cookies. We got up Saturday morning and went to pick up our Thanksgiving turkey at the indoor farmers’ market. Actually we sneaked into the Monona Terrace lot and transferred the box with our name on it from the back of Matt’s truck to the back of our car, and then … [Read more…]
When cookie season is terribly compressed. Not enough weekends, and the ones I do have, I keep giving up for trips to Chicago. I’ve made one cookie kind so far, the lebkuchen. This year I tried a new recipe, from King Arthur Flour, and I kinda like it. I made my normal batch using the … [Read more…]
Tuesday this week I taught my third cooking class at Orange Tree Imports. I think this one was the most fun yet. The theme was vegetable side dishes “easy enough for everyday, fancy enough for Thanksgiving”. We made from-scratch green bean casserole. Potato Poblano Gratin, pretty much the Gourmet recipe as is. I demoed making … [Read more…]
I was looking at the buttons on the backpack of the person in front of me on my walk to work this morning, and thinking I agreed with most of them. One of them said “she, her, hers” preferred pronouns so I guess I am safe to call the person a woman. Other buttons said … [Read more…]