I hadn't planned on doing any Christmas baking because I still had a mini pumpkin pie in the freezer from Thanksgiving. Then, I changed my mind, because it was Christmas, after all ( Read more... )

This jam filled sandwich cookie is a copycat of a commercial cookie produced by the Purity Factories in Newfoundland. The same recipe is found on several web sites. The one I found first and used is here. Even though there's no ginger used in the cookie dough, the finished cookie tastes similar to gingerbread cookies, probably due to the brown ( Read more... )

I don't remember eating a lot of desserts growing up ... crepes, cream puffs, apple strudel, walnut torte with chocolate butter cream icing. Occasionally, my mom would make small crescent shaped cookies with ground walnuts in the dough. It may have been because she just wasn't that fond of sweets. My dad, on the other hand, had a great sweet tooth ( Read more... )

I didn't want to title this post just "Strawberry Jam" because someone might assume I was posting about MAKING strawberry jam ... and that's not happening. Ever ( Read more... )

I'm so bored that the dozens of pictures that I took over the last month or so are languishing on my hard drive, unlikely to ever see the light of day. And the July clear-out post of pictures, scheduled to drop, eventually, is probably going to be deleted, as there's nothing really new in them ( Read more... )

It's always fun when you have all the ingredients for something that catches your eye.

I saw these delicious looking biscuits on one of the FB food groups I belong to. When I checked out the link I found that the recipe used whole wheat flour and fine porridge oats and not all purpose flour. I happened to have some leftover finely ground rolled ( Read more... )

I recently saw a post on one of my bread making FB groups about making potato bread/buns ... and I was intrigued ( Read more... )

Recently I had a cookie fail ... a type of spritz cookies (ETA: they're actually called meat grinder cookies) from a Hungarian recipe. I used an old cookie press that I inherited from my mom, but the dough was so stiff that I almost broke my thumbs trying to push it through the decorative nozzles. I finally gave up after forcing out about a dozen ( Read more... )

I vaguely remember my mom serving these walnut filled cookies, called "kolache", for special occasions ... but I don't think she had made them in the last 20 years of her life. As a result, I have no idea what recipe she used. I was going to use the same dough I use to make rugelach (butter/cream cheese based) for the kolache, until I remembered ( Read more... )

I enjoyed the taste of the last batch of oatmeal cookies that I made ... but the 'look' didn't thrill me.

These, on the other hand, are very photogenic. And they taste good as well. Not overly sweet ... next time, I'd use half the amount of salt though cause the margarine, which I used instead of butter, was salty enough.


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