I went to the College of William and Mary. And in Colonial (er…Revolutionary?) Williamsburg, there is a magical place called The Cheese Shop. Among students, The Cheese Shop was famous for one thing: its sandwiches, slathered with house dressing. Most of us sampled it for the first time during freshman orientation, when our guides instructed […]
So I haven’t posted in a week…but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been cooking! In fact, it’s been kind of a frenzy of kitchen activity over here, between meals with visiting relatives (over 20 in all!) and Christmas dinner…lots of spicy, herb-y yumminess going on. I wish I hadn’t missed the chance to share about […]
So. It’s the week before Christmas. You are probably busy cleaning your house for the relatives coming into town, running back and forth from Target, and wrapping so many presents that you have little tooth-shaped scars on your index finger from the tape dispenser. Or maybe that’s just me. What you really need right now […]
So our annual cookie party was last week! I baked and I baked and then I baked some more. I think I made more than 30 dozen cookies in total. And then I decorated. And thankfully my sister-in-law had mercy on me and came and helped me decorate. The key to keeping yourself sane when […]
It’s Christmas. The season of giving! And in honor of that, I want to give you a cute set of cookie cutters. Maybe you enjoy the task of rolling out sugar cookies and stamping elves and angels into them. Maybe you can work wonders with a set of nesting cookie cutters. I am thinking linzer […]
Let’s be honest. It is a little exhausting to make a dozen different kinds of cookies/candies for one big event. My best friend reminded me that I said the same thing last year in the days leading up to our cookie party…but apparently I forgot. At least it’s a delicious way to wear myself out! […]