Cookie season! It doesn’t feel like the holidays until I’ve made my first batch of gingerbread cookies, which was yesterday. I used A Cookie To Celebrate by Jana Douglass, and went crazy with edible glitter and a new recipe for royal icing. This book teaches about piping and flooding (verbs I had no idea had […]
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Spiced Kuri Squash Soup and Gingerbread Bundt Cake
Our sweet bulldog is now half-blind. In a Shakespearean twist, her eyeball had to come out last Tuesday. She is adjusting like a champ. We are resorting to pirate costumes to adjust ourselves, but she is in much less pain now without the tumor that had invaded the eye, and so we are grateful. She […]
Blueberry Gingerbread for a Very Special Christmas
One of my favorite Christmas memories was in a New Orleans church service in 2007. The pastor proclaimed himself to be a “reformed musician” –having left the wild partying life, he still brought his saxophone into the pulpit to accompany the choir. That night it was an advent service and to kick off the hymn […]
Gingerbread for the First Sunday of Advent
A sign that I have been a student too long: after the Lessons and Carols advent service tonight at Calvary, a woman approaches me at the refreshments table where I have proudly placed a tray of gingerbread tree cookies, and asks, “Where did you get the recipe for these?” and I say without missing a […]
Gingerbread
How very fortuitous that my solemn vows to not cook and to not blog are simultaneously undone in concert, here. New Years is necessarily about the rethinking of stubbornnesses. And so it has been, for me, a long, long rethinking over the holiday. Thanks to unshirkable obsessive compulsive tendencies, I have structured my bread-baking task list […]