What was I thinking, agreeing to post an entry a day for a whole month? True, I have really been enjoying the whole Holidailies event, but given the whirlwind of events that are generally going on this time of year, coupled with the fact that I’ve been fighting some kind of weird virus the past […]
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The Gift of Baking
I never tire of baking. When I used to have spare time (which would include time for Holidailies) in my twenties, I’d bake up tins of holiday cookies for special people in my life and give these as Christmas gifts. Every recipe was lovingly chosen, delicately placed on frilly doilies in the tin, and sealed […]
Silence, Snow, and Sweets
Two suburban blocks sure can make a difference. I swear, we moved north–two blocks north–and suddenly, we’re living in the arctic. This never seemed to happen at the old house: the snow is swirling madly about my window, displaced drifts gusting in a constantly shifting veil of wayward flakes. It looks like some crazy subterranean god just sneezed, […]
Pumpkinseed Shortbread Buttons
I had promised to post recipes on Friday and diet musings on Saturdays during Holidailies, but I’ve been so frazzled by all this marking that I skipped straight to the weekend in yesterday’s post. I figured I’d better rectify the situation, and what better way than with cookies? This is a recipe I originally created […]
Hazelnut Mocha Cookies
I seem to be running into hazelnuts and coffee a lot these days. A couple of weeks ago, when we were visiting him and his family at their cottage up north, my friend Mark offered me Frangelico with coffee (he forgot I haven’t drunk coffee in 7 years). Then I bought the latest issue of Everyday […]
Frosted Banana-Oat Bars
Last evening I logged on to my blog and was gobsmacked to discover that my post had been listed on the Best of Holidailies! You cannot imagine how thrilled this neophyte blogger was at the news (made the H.H. read the whole thing–he liked the pic of Elsie’s paw especially) and also how surprised. So thank you, panel of Holidailies readers, and […]
Gluten Free Cashew Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hmmmnnnn. . . . so what does this say about me? I am surrounded by boxes. Right here, in my office, the towers of boxes around me–leaving a path just barely wide enough to traverse to get to my computer–resemble a child’s game of war and fortress (I can almost see over the top of the […]