Bah Humbug, for some reason I have not been able to get into holiday “drive”. Maybe I’m still jet lagged from our trip to New Orleans or I am still in a Creole butter coma. The Cookie Cure Gotta Snap Out Of It. Maybe baking tried and true recipes might work. I dug out my …
With the reprint of Claudia Fleming’s “The Last Course”, I reached into the archives for a post on a trio of shortbread I “tested” on friends and family. A delectable triple play of cookies that would be lovely in a holiday cookie tin or a festive platter for the annual swap. Fleming’s Lemon Poppy Seed …
A delicious holiday dessert, Cranberry Curd Tart. Easy to make and beautiful!
My favorite dish at Thanksgiving, excluding dessert, is dressing. I adore bread stuffing. My Mom’s version is delicious. It’s a pretty traditional bread dressing with the one Asian tweak of dried oysters added to it. I asked my mom to write her recipe down…and she did! Thank goodness, since she rarely cooked from recipes and …
Last week I headed up to the City to run some errands, check on my mom’s house and visit her at the assisted-living home. We moved mom to a care facility after a couple of health emergencies and declining cognitive ability, sadly she could no longer live independently. I arrived at her place around lunchtime …
Greetings from rainy Quebec City! Hubby and I decided to take a quick trip to Montreal and Quebec City. Our last trip to the eastern side of Canada was for a hockey tournament for Jeffrey quite a few years ago. We made it as far as Toronto that time. This time we were off to …
I’m pretty jazzed, a friend is gifting me a fig tree! She took a cutting, threw it in dirt and whaddya know, it grew into a full-fledged tree. I’m going to be really embarrassed if it doesn’t survive on my watch. Farmer Deb is not a moniker associated with me. I am content to be …
We were invited to Rosh Hashanah dinner the other night and I volunteered to bring dessert. It’s usually a no brainer since our host LOVES Lemon Bars. But then I remembered I had promised to post Mrs. S’s Pecan Tartlet recipe. The Lemon Bars would have to wait for another occasion. Mrs. S, for all …
I love the fall season. Aside from all things pumpkin and apples, I start thinking about foods that go hand in hand with watching football. My dad was a sport’s junkie and he definitely passed the sports-watching gene to my brother and me. He also liked to cook. Every Sunday he would have a big …