Holiday Open House on Google+
Six months ago Katie from Katie’s Cucina and I sat down and faced our computer screens for our first Google+ Hangout. It was a chat about tomatoes and no, I’m not going to give you the link. OH MY GOD, was it ever embarrassingly terrible! After that long and painful-to-watch video we adjusted the format [...]
Read More...An Easy Way to Decorate a Cake for Christmas
So you know how I was making all that Candy Cane Hot Chocolate to give out as gifts? Well, I went a bit crazy crushing candy canes and had a surplus. Luckily, I was asked to whip up a dessert for a friend’s get-together and I thought of a way to use up all those [...]
Read More...Gin and Tonic for Christmas
While I do like a celebratory fancy drink here and there, I tend to stick to the basics. Gin and Tonic is something that I never used to like but it has grown on me. I now happily sip on one as a pre-dinner drink if we’re out for a nice meal. And since I’ve [...]
Read More...Peppermint Hot Chocolate Float & Feeling Normal
On Sunday evening, after having spent a lovely few days with my brother and his family who are visiting from Canada and with my parents who have snow-birded in, the hubs and I took the kids for a walk to see all of our neighbors’ homes glittering with lights. M loves little lights
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Easy Holiday Dessert: Irish Whiskey Cake
It’s possible that yesterday you found out what a poor baker I am. That’s o.k. because I’ve come up with strategies to get around the problem. For instance, when we celebrated “Pretend Christmas” with my in-laws who were visiting from the UK last week I whipped up a very easy
Read More...Don’t Make My Layered Icebox Cookies
The Layered Icebox Cookies that I made for The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap of 2012 are pretty and they’re tender. So tender. With a subtle fruit flavor that hints at the holiday season and a flaky butter crumb that I yearn for on my Christmas Cookie Tray. But please please don’t even think about [...]
Read More...Winter Food in Alaska Video Chat
Back when I was a graduate student studying Linguistics, and specifically the morphosyntax of the language Inuktitut, I spent a bit of time way way up North on Baffin Island. My focus at the time was not the food and yet food was always on my mind. I was astonished by the cost of groceries, [...]
Read More...Chocolate Muesli Snowball Cookies on Bob’s Today
You probably know that I’m not much of a baker. I just don’t love it. Sorry. Anyhow, find out about the dread I feel when I have to make sweets at holiday time in my post over at Bob’s Red Mill today. Included is an easy and healthy recipe for Chocolate Muesli Snowballs. What part [...]
Read More...A Hot Hot Hot Holiday Drink: The Coffee Float
Who says I can’t have ice cream treats in the winter? Of course I can! In a restaurant I can succumb to my milkshake craving and order an extra thick malted. I can even defy a drafty December and whip out my blender at home. However, I don’t think I would serve an icy treat
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