Posts tagged "cookies"
2. 12 Days of Sharing -- PfeffernusseDecember 12th, 2009
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 decorating the cookies.
I remember packaging them up to give them to neighbors and family and friends, because there is something particularly wonderful about sharing homemade gifts with the people you love.
These small things -- a little flour, a little butter, maybe some nuts and spices -- create lasting memories of love and giving and happy holidays. Unfortunately, there are many children in America for whom even these small things are out of reach.
This year one in five children w...
I remember standing at the kitchen counter, stirring the dough, and sitting at the dining room table painstakingly decorating the cookies.
I remember packaging them up to give them to neighbors and family and friends, because there is something particularly wonderful about sharing homemade gifts with the people you love.
These small things -- a little flour, a little butter, maybe some nuts and spices -- create lasting memories of love and giving and happy holidays. Unfortunately, there are many children in America for whom even these small things are out of reach.
This year one in five children w...
3. Gourmet Unbound 1 -- Skibo Castle Ginger CrunchDecember 1st, 2009
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 the leftover stuffing.
Or dressing, as my father insists on calling it, even though it was, in fact, cooked inside a turkey.
Anyway, the point is Thanksgiving was lovely, but it is over, and moreover, it is now December 1, which means that even the grinchiest of grinches cannot deny that it is now more than appropriate to talk about Christmas. I love Christmas -- the deck the halls, the ho ho hos, the kisses under the mistletoe, the presents under the tree.
I even love malls at Christmasti...
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 the leftover stuffing.
Or dressing, as my father insists on calling it, even though it was, in fact, cooked inside a turkey.
Anyway, the point is Thanksgiving was lovely, but it is over, and moreover, it is now December 1, which means that even the grinchiest of grinches cannot deny that it is now more than appropriate to talk about Christmas. I love Christmas -- the deck the halls, the ho ho hos, the kisses under the mistletoe, the presents under the tree.
I even love malls at Christmasti...
4. Sisterhood and Molasses CookiesNovember 4th, 2009
One of the things I truly love about cooking is the sense of community that's created around food.
Not just the bloggers and their social media, the chefs and their late night hangouts or even the people around your dinner table, but the broader community that comes from the sharing of recipes.
Every time I cook something from a recipe, I'm connected to the hundreds (thousands) of people who have cooked the recipe before (or something very similar. In cooking, like in so many things, there is nothing new under the sun) and when I am finding myself particularly prone to flights of fancy, I imagine sitting in a shadowy quilting bee with all the people who are sharing the secrets of the kitchen with me....
Of course, the best ki...
Not just the bloggers and their social media, the chefs and their late night hangouts or even the people around your dinner table, but the broader community that comes from the sharing of recipes.
Every time I cook something from a recipe, I'm connected to the hundreds (thousands) of people who have cooked the recipe before (or something very similar. In cooking, like in so many things, there is nothing new under the sun) and when I am finding myself particularly prone to flights of fancy, I imagine sitting in a shadowy quilting bee with all the people who are sharing the secrets of the kitchen with me....
Of course, the best ki...
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