As I mentioned yesterday, I have a surprise for you. Actually, this is just the first surprise… I’m getting fully into the holiday spirit this year and wanted to share a little of it with you. So in the coming weeks I will be giving away a few presents to you, my readers.
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This is the first cookie I ever made completely from scratch and on my own. I stumbled across the recipe in the Joy of Cooking when I was in high school (even back then I liked to thumb through cookbooks and dream about eating all the delicious things from its pages). These deep well cookies were love at first bite, and became my go-to cookie for some of my teenage years. So when my Sunday school class decided to hold a “bake off”, I took a batch of these… and I won.
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We are now officially into the heart of the Holiday Season and you know what that means, right? Cookies. And presents. But mostly cookies. Last year I made caramels and tried to make some other candies but this year, I am going to stick to what I know: baking — not to be confused with bacon, though I know a little bit about that too.
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I know I’ve written about puff pastry before (see: chocolate croissants, and easy apple tart), but I wanted to give it props one more time. Some mornings, maybe you have the wherewithal to make pancakes or biscuits or pinwheels. Other mornings, you want something warm, flaky, and delicious but easy. That’s where puff pastry comes in. It’s so easy it’s theme song should be Easy by the Commodores… [now everybody sing it with me: that's why I'm eeeeasy, easy like Sunday morning].
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Peek-a-boo. After a few days away, this evening I was back in the kitchen making pie crusts for our belated Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. By the way, I found leaf lard! (and there was much rejoicing).
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