|
I've always been a Christmas fiend, but having a child brings the whole season into sharper focus. This year the Nuni is old enough to get it -- she can sing all of the words to "Jingle Bells" and "Silent Night", she points out every decorated hou (read full article)
So let's say you've made your Fruitcake, thoroughly doused it in liquor, and now you want to serve it on Christmas Eve. You have bought into the joys of fruitcake, but now you want to sell it. If one is not a fruitcake convert, a bit of glaze an (read full article)
It's the Monday before Christmas. You've baked your fruitcake, braved the mall, passed all the shipping deadlines and if you're anything like me, are more than ready to settle down for a long winter's nap. Then your neighbor drops off a "small gi (read full article)
I don't know if I have an old fashioned palate, or if it's my inner historian, or if I'm just plain curious, but whenever I hear about a recipe or a dish that is extinct my mouth starts watering. I love poring through old cookbooks and finding rec (read full article)
Every Christmas season when I was growing up, my mother and I would bake cookies. Sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies, gingerbread. I remember standing at the kitchen counter, stirring the dough, and sitting at the dining room table painstakingly decor (read full article)
I know what you're thinking. Fruitcake? Really? And yes, I am well aware of fruitcake's reputation as the bane of the holidays. But fruitcake doesn't have to be a joke. Yes, it is dense, but it should be sliced thinly -- it's really a confecti (read full article)
If you like to bake, as I do, and you like to eat, as I also do, you often get asked "What is your favorite dessert?" I rarely have an answer. Sometimes I feel like the cool creaminess of ice cream, and I'm more in a bread pudding mode. Sometime (read full article)
Well that was nice. Thanksgiving I mean. Turkey and cranberries and wine and family and five pies do leave me with a warm glow of contentment that may even leave me cheerful enough to forgive my visiting father in law the sin of finishing ALL of t (read full article)
Our free membership allows you to rate and review recipes, manage your private recipe box, submit your own recipes, and more!
