• Archive for December, 2005

    No Shortcuts Anymore

    by  • December 21, 2005 • lessons • 1 Comment

    I confess. I bought a bag of that granulated brown sugar (Domino’s calls it Brownulated, or something like that). Anyway, I used that instead of packed light brown sugar in a few recipes with varying degrees of success. But yesterday, as I blended, stirred, dropped and baked double chocolate chip cookies, I realized that...

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    Mounds of Cookies

    by  • December 14, 2005 • Cookies, dessert • 5 Comments

    It’s almost time for me to start baking. Christmas is 11 days away and I have dozens of cookies to create. I am not the best baker, honestly, but for some reason I just love baking Christmas cookies. Maybe it’s a sickness. I just like to see mounds of sweets piled high for the...

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    Easter Bunny Hot Chocolate

    by  • December 13, 2005 • dessert, drinks • 2 Comments

    After forgetting the cocoa at the grocery store Thursday and getting snowed in on Friday, I was jonesing for a nice hot chocolate. Alas, we had none left. At least, we didn’t have any of the usual suspects: Nestle, Swiss Miss, etc. But I wasn’t going to be deterred by that unfortunate fact.After a...

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    Notes on Herbs and Spices

    by  • December 10, 2005 • spices/herbs • 2 Comments

    I am obsessed with flavor. And by flavor I mean poignant, memorable, recognizable aromas and tastes. I don’t know why, but everything I make has to “sing,” as an editor of mine always says. I’ve noticed that there are a few things in my spice cabinet that get pulled out a lot. And it’s...

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