Holidays

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner ~ Colcannon

March 13, 2012

Pin It Welcome to the 4th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Blog Crawl hosted by Kathleen at Cuisine Kathleen No matter what our heritage most of us feel a wee bit Irish on St. Paddy’s Day. Kathleen throws a great party and I encourage you to visit her for Irish music, food, recipes and her [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year To All! I hope 2012 will be a happy, healthy and prosperous year for everyone.

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Chicago’s Christkindlmarket ~ I thought I was in Germany

December 16, 2011

I went to Chicago for the Thanksgiving holiday to visit my daughter and family and after our big dinner on Thursday we wanted to get out in the sunshine and do a little sightseeing. Every year from the day before Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve Chicago puts on one of the most authentic German [...]

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Gingerbread Biscotti

December 11, 2011

It wouldn’t be Christmas in my house without cakes and cookies filled with the wonderful flavors of cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Most importantly, it wouldn’t smell like Christmas. We love the aroma of warm burnt almonds, gingerbread and lebkuchen so when I saw this recipe for gingerbread biscotti at Joy of Baking I was [...]

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Nurnberger Lebkuchen ~ German Gingerbread

November 30, 2011

One of the oldest and most beautiful Christmas markets in Europe is the Christkindlmarkt in Nuremberg,Germany. The Christmas Angel opens this famous market on the Friday before the first Sunday of Advent and when it closes on Christmas Eve more than 2 million visitors will have browsed the almost 200 stalls and feasted on Nuremburger bratwurst, [...]

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A Holiday Evening of Lights

November 3, 2011

The farmers’ market season may be over for the year, but the Bavarian Nut Company is busier than ever. Cinnamon roasted almonds are a traditional European holiday treat and I have a long list of events that I participate in before Thanksgiving and Christmas. I was at Al’s Garden Center in Sherwood last night [...]

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Dresdener Stollen Revisited

December 20, 2010

Baking Dresdener Stollen is one of my dearest holiday traditions. My mother made it every year at Christmas time and passed on the tradition to me when she gave me her hand written card with this wonderful recipe. You will find the recipe and a little history of this traditional German bread on last year’s [...]

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Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies

December 12, 2010

Aren’t these the cutest little Christmas Tree cookies you’ve ever seen? I’ll bet you are scratching your head and wondering “How in the world did she do that? Is there a fancy new gadget from WS that I’ve missed, a new cookie cutter perhaps or mold that forms the tree with lots of fiddling and [...]

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Candy Corn Cookies

October 10, 2010

When my children were young Halloween was second only to Christmas in the excitement and anticipation it created. Weeks were spent deciding on just the right costume and, back then, our local grade school hosted a party where parents and children came in costume and bobbed for apples, walked the cake walk, and pretended to [...]

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Strawberry Mango Crepes ~ A Special Treat for Dad

June 18, 2010

What could make Father’s Day more special than a sumptuous Sunday brunch featuring Strawberry Mango Crepes? Paper thin crepes filled with whipped cream and piled high with fresh strawberries and mango will tell the man in your life that he is indeed special. Sweet Crepes…adapted from a recipe in the FoodDay section of The [...]