Tag: recipes

  • The best Christmas cookies ever!

    The best Christmas cookies ever!

    I want to share with you my favorite Christmas cookie recipe. These are super easy with very few ingredients and melt in your mouth. I even won a cookie contest with these! I learned to make them in my cooking class at Tomales high school with my favorite teacher Miss Issel. I wish I knew…

  • Making grape jam with Martha

    Making grape jam with Martha

    and I don’t mean Martha Stewart, I mean the very talented Martha Wolfe! If by chance you don’t know Martha’s work you need to check it out! Martha makes art quilts but she’s also studied printmaking and has a background in academia in the field of Marine Biology. Martha’s work is very graphic in nature,…

  • Happy St. Nicolas Day!

    Happy St. Nicolas Day!

    The mingling scents of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and allspice fill the air as warm Speculatius (Saint Nicolas Cookies) bake in the oven. The tradition is that children put out their shoes the night before and Saint Nicolas puts cookies in them for morning. We could never go quite that far because our little four legged friends…

  • Happy St. Nicolas Day!

    The mingling scents of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and allspice fill the air as warm Speculatius (Saint Nicolas Cookies) bake in the oven. The tradition is that children put out their shoes the night before and Saint Nicolas puts cookies in them for morning. We could never go quite that far because our little four legged friends…

  • Chocolate Peppermint Cream Heart Cakes

    Chocolate Peppermint Cream Heart Cakes Zucchini Chocolate Cake 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda            1/2 tsp salt 3 cups shredded zucchini 1 cup semisweet chocolate baking chips 1 cup salad oil 4 large eggs In a large bowl, mix flour,…

  • Happy New Year!

    Indigo and I took in the new year at a tavern in the neighborhood that hosted a wig themed new years party. What fun we had! One thing I’ll really miss about living in Chicago is being able to go out for a night of fun and walk home or just hop in a cab.…

  • Cuban Dinner

    Last night I prepared one of my favorite meals with friends; Cuban black beans, rice, roast pork and pickled red onions for garnish. My friend Alexa came over and made mojitos and brought a cabbage slaw with avocado and jalepeño and a mango sorbet for dessert. Everything was delicious, so I thought I would share…

  • Homemade Whoopie Pies!!!!

    It was pouring rain, nothing to do outside on a sunday afternoon, so Nina had the brilliant idea of trying to make whoopie pies. These are a treat that anyone growing up in New England would have fond memories of. It is like a chocolate cake sandwich with creamy filling. A box cake mix would…

  • St. Patricks day dinner a few days early

    I cooked St. Patrick’s day dinner on friday night, seems appropriate for Chicago, since the city has been celebrating all weekend as well. I have been making this dinner every year since this recipe was first published in Sunset magazine back in 1994. The majority of my favorite recipes have come from Sunset. I am…

  • Happy St. Nicolas Day!

    The mingling scents of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and allspice fill the air as warm Speculatius (Saint Nicolas Cookies) bake in the oven. The tradition is that children put out their shoes the night before and Saint Nicolas puts cookies in them for morning. We could never go quite that far because our little four…

  • Mmmmm….

    Nina loves cranberries, she eats raw cranberries all the time, so she did a Google search for desert recipes with cranberries and found a recipe for cranberry pie! She made it last night and it came out so good, nicely tart and such a pretty color. We were also thinking it would be really good…