I tried to give myself a nice long cookie season by scheduling the party on the late side, December 20th. But somehow life intervened and I still ended up with not enough time. I feel like I missed out on a bunch of stuff by staying home and baking. But that’s nothing new. Right now, … [Read more…]
This cookie season has been marked by lots of things coming out not quite right. By my (overly high?) standards, anyways. Let’s go through. Things started off OK with the jam stars and the lebkuchen. There’re plenty of jam stars, starring in their own video and the lebkuchen are nice and chewy and you can … [Read more…]
The 2025 jam stars in their first ever video. So far I’ve made the jam stars and the lebkuchen. And I tried out a new recipe for the cranberry pistachio slice & bakes. I think I’ll go with it. About 10 days ago, I made a pumpkin pie with a crumb crust using some chocolate … [Read more…]
I had all the best intention to write sooner this time, but the best of intentions in Scottish, Robert Burns I think, “gang aft agley”. So now I think I have to try to remember my thoughts since November 5th. Good memory exercise. And oh, oops, even before November 5, all the way back to … [Read more…]
We spent last Friday, Halloween, in Chicago. We went down for a double-header, Chicago Symphony in the afternoon, and David Byrne at night. And now it’s only Wednesday, but it feels like it’s already Friday. Maybe because of the time change Saturday night. Maybe because Jasper came on Monday this week, so that I could … [Read more…]
I’m still having this problem where I forget to photograph food. I think it’s partially because I feel like the pictures of, for example, a pan of scones from 2025 looks almost the same as the one from 2020. And also because it’s the time of year where it’s too dark to get a good … [Read more…]
By which I mean here I am living relatively comfortably, but each new headline is another horror. Trump just says this shit and people believe him. Yesterday I kept seeing pictures of the east wing of the Whitehouse being torn down for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago style ball room. Where were the preservationists? I heard a couple … [Read more…]
For pumpkin butter and all manner of things. Optimism is not really in my nature, but I’m trying. This morning Thursday morning I made a batch of pumpkin butter, which I hadn’t done in a year or two because the last batch turned into a tasty but non-spreadable lump, that I think was due to … [Read more…]
And various cooking adventures. The last full week of September, so like a week and a half ago(ish) we spent Thursday and Friday partially in Chicago. Thursday was Mark’s birthday and his present from me was go to Chicago, see Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me in the Studebaker Theater, and stay in a nice hotel. … [Read more…]
Since we’ve been back from TIFF, about two weeks now, we’ve entered into this seemingly endless string of hot sunny days with thankfully cool nights. It’s bright and blue skies and down to the 50s at night, but up to the 80s in the daytime, case in point the current temp is 81°, although that … [Read more…]