Tag: Christmas

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 …

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 …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/4190448666/" title="Bourbon Balls 1 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4190448666_2df87d0c05.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Bourbon Balls 1" /></a><br /><br /> I don't know what it says about the general depravity of my childhood that when I …

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 …

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.  …

This chocolate gingerbread is my desert island dessert, my diet buster, my indulgence of choice. If I had to choose one baked good, this would be the one. Of course, it helps that it's almost …

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 …