Gingerbread with spice

I’ve been baking lots of cookies lately – these books have been at my kitchen counter all the time – but I wanted something else for the[...]

So I decided to grab the hot weather by the horns and make Christmas tartlets anyway , but with my dried fruit stash reduced to a sad handful I dropped the[...]

Spices are ingredients I love – to the point of buying a cookbook devoted to them – and I use them throughout the year, but this time of the year[...]

My friend Ana Elisa’s adventure in making torrone reminded me of how much work these caramels were: it took forever for the mixture to achieve the[...]

I was sitting home the other day, thinking about Christmas and how it is my favorite time of the year. I thought about my Christmas tree, and how I would be[...]

My favorite time of the year has arrived and my Christmas tree is already up – I have been thinking of the Christmas Eve menu already, planning the food[...]