Life has been pottering along over the last month, and the journal, I guess has just had to have a time to lie fallow for a while. Our Second Annual Yule/Solstice/Channukah/Christmas party went off as planned on the 1st of December, (next year, it is going to be in the second week) The weather was crappy that morning, but cleared off in the ( Read more... )

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

T'was the day after Christmas, and I am taking a day off, from everything. It is quite a perfect day for it - there is a winter storm warning on, and the snow started to waft down at 10:30 this morning. It seems as though I have been running flat out for the last month. This is, in fact, quite true ( Read more... )

I started making this recipe as part of a Channukah gift for Betsy and Will. I will never forget the first year I made them, Betsy laid eyes on them, and "Rugalach! I haven't had them since my Bubbie made them ( Read more... )

Christmas was never Christmas without shortbread. Blithely simple, wonderfully rich and not terribly sweet. You have to use real butter with this, margarine et.al. just will not work. I suppose you could use the calorie reduced butter, though I have never tried it. If you do, though, you may have to add a bit more flour because that butter has ( Read more... )

this recipe, brought to you courtesy of Bacardi Rum has got to be the easiest rum cake. Ever. It also, providing it isn't snarfed down immediately, keeps very well, probably due to the wonderful rum glaze in which it soaks ( Read more... )

The remaining rail arrived today. When it had not arrived by Tuesday night, Dan placed a call the dealer informing him of same. The next day,Wednesday, about an hour or so after I left for work, we got a call; the damn thing hadn't even been shipped yet and it was going to be shipped that day. Needless to say, I was more than a little peeved. ( Read more... )

Home Cookin Chapter: Appetizers ( Read more... )

Yes, there is a heatwave going on here in "the Great White North". The temperature today climbed to a very unseasonable 20C, and probably made some sort of record. Here it is, the third week of November, and I am scooting around town on grocery day in tee-shirt and jeans. The climate is changing and that's for sure ( Read more... )