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…]
And it’s only Tuesday (ha, now finishing this post the following Saturday – so Jasper is now one week old!) so we can still talk about it, right? On Saturday I became a grandma. Jasper Gray Lusis arrived for Al & Emma at 1:35 am. And cookie season officially started since I baked the … [Read more…]
We had two Thanksgivings-es this year: the first on the actual day, at Al & Emma’s, and the second here at home, on Black Friday, which is when we’ve been doing our Thanksgiving for a quite a while now. For Al & Emma’s I made an apple slab pie that took over the world – … [Read more…]
For Thanksgiving, I usually make a giant bucket of chex mix, and torment my family with it. We eat it while we’re waiting for dinner. There’s nothing like real butter and fresh garlic to make tempting junk food even more addictive. I didn’t make pickled carrots, either. We cancelled our 6-person, socially distanced, out in … [Read more…]
We needed water softener salt, so I decided to make the week’s shopping expedition a Costco run. And I figured I might as well go ahead and get the cookie ingredients that I get at Costco, like the 36 pounds of butter that even at Woodman’s gets me a lot of WTF looks, but at … [Read more…]
Al & Emma hosted on real Thanksgiving at their new house. I made a green bean casserole, caramel pumpkin pie, and spicy sweet potatoes. The caramel pie is from Food & Wine – it’s a keeper. I didn’t do candied pepitas on top, I made pie crust cutouts instead. Emma made chocolate cream pie that … [Read more…]
Thanksgiving in Hollywood, 1981, I believe. My brother, me, mom & dad, brother’s then girlfriend Rita. Lovely Rita. SoCal stuff like the diner, and random pink Rambler, that was not ours. I like that we took pictures of the pumpkin pie. I want to make these into a quilt. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled exclude=”3010″]
I think I’m in full-scale cookie denial at the moment, and a little tired out from Thanksgiving. There’s one cookie kind (the Joy of Cooking Lebkuchen, German honey & spice bars) in the vestibule, where I store cookies, and where I am at the mercy of the weather for refrigeration. So, I could say I’m … [Read more…]
We had 20 people at 2 big tables. Here’s the menu with notes: Apps – Goat cheese & ratatouille & baguette – a small container of ratatouille from the freezer, that I put in a baking dish, made a well where I put in a small hunk of a goat cheese log, baked, and poured … [Read more…]