by Liz Gumbinner | Feb 5, 2019 | Shopping Finds
Okay, so everyone’s been talking about the now famous pickle bouquet this year. But if you’re looking for a more creative alternative to chocolate or cookies for Valentine’s Day, I have a few treat ideas that are less — dill, shall we say? Not...
by Anne Wolfe Postic | Dec 18, 2018 | Holiday Cooking, Recipes
For many of us, sweets and baked goods are a highlight of the holiday season. (I admit it!) And because a lot of people are in a giving kind of mood, a holiday bake sale can be lucrative and fun. As a veteran of many bake sales (those school choir trips to Europe...
by Christina Refford | Dec 12, 2018 | Christmas, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
Baking Christmas cookies with the kids always sounds like a good idea until you’re elbow deep in cookie batter with too many sticky hands trying to “help” and eat the raw dough. So if you have about as much patience as I do for this type of endeavor,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Dec 10, 2018 | Christmas, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
I know everyone makes fun of recipes that start with long, drawn-out intros about life and love and cooking and family and the smell of cocoa powder and blah blah blah. But in the case of my dad’s perfect peanut brittle recipe, which he’s been kind enough...
by Jane Sweeney | Dec 10, 2018 | Christmas, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
My favorite kind of cakes are the ones that beg to be eaten morning, noon and night. The kind of cake that gives equal permission to be enjoyed with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine – and Nigella Lawson’s Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake does exactly that. Ultra-moist yet...