What do you get if you make a Chocolate Chestnut Tart, one that is made to be served with Vanilla Chestnut Syrup…but you don’t add in the chestnuts? And omit the syrup? Why, Chocolate Pie of course! Which is a lovely thing indeed! Unless that’s not actually what you’re supposed to be making. I started…
Archives for December 2015
Memories of Meals Past: Holly Jolly Ginger Cookies
There’s nothing quite like the scent of gingerbread drifting from a kitchen, to make it feel like the Christmas holidays have finally arrived. While I do have a gingerbread recipe handed down to me from my mother, it is sometimes a bit more work than I care to do. In which case, these super-quick and…
Toffee Pecan Refrigerator Cookies
I love the holidays, especially Christmas! I love baking delicious things, including rum-basted Christmas cake; I love decorating my home with hand-stitched Christmas quilt and homemade ornaments; I love putting out stockings and filling them up with little treats; and I love celebrating with everyone that I hold dear all in the same place. Of course,…
Stained Glass Cookies & A Case of the Kitchen Grumpies
Usually I post my bake-a-long recipes on Monday night or Tuesday evening at the latest, but this week’s recipe got away from me, so I’m posting it on a Wednesday. The recipe is Stained Glass Cookies from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi — doesn’t it sound nice? Well. They taste nice too, assuming you bake…
Salads I Have Known and Loved: Three-Bean Salad & What I Ate for Lunch
When I was a child, fast food chains often sold a three-bean salad alongside their deep-fried meat products. One could buy little containers of three-bean salad alongside one’s chicken thighs, most likely to assuage nutrition guilt (“I’ll take a bucket of deep-fried chicken, annnnnd a two-bite container of bean salad. That’s a balanced meal, right?”)….