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Christmas

Foodie Gifts on RedEnvelope + $75 Gift Card Giveaway!

November 16, 2011

{Today’s post and giveaway have been sponsored by RedEnvelope.} I can remember this time of year circa 1998. A coworker, who had been tooling around the Internet shopping for holiday gifts, looked up from his computer and triumphantly announced across the cubicles, “This is gonna be an e-Christmas!”. Ha ha ha, we all fell over [...]

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Tamales

September 26, 2011

I hope I whet your appetite for Mexican food with last week’s sopes because I’m back this week with Tamales! I caught the hint that tamales might be a tad labor intensive when three different people kind of sighed and waved their hand when I suggested I wanted to try making them. There’s a good [...]

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Gingerbread Biscotti with Apricots

December 16, 2009

I have been holding onto this Gingerbread Biscotti recipe for months now, waiting for the holidays to give it a try. It was definitely worth the wait, although I wish I’d tried it much sooner – they are fantastic! Most of the biscotti I’ve had in the past have been tasty but not especially noteworthy [...]

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Holiday Cheese Log with Cranberries & Pecans

December 13, 2009

It isn’t the holidays until someone breaks out a cheese log, am I right? Well this year I guess that someone is me. I can honestly say I’ve never really been all that into cheese logs. The whole concept is so odd…rolling out cheese into log form, crusting it in nuts and serving it with [...]

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Toffee Almond Shortbread

December 7, 2009

You’d think that after all the toffee I consumed last week I wouldn’t want anything more to do with the stuff for a while, but it’s not so. On the contrary, I was quite eager to chop up some of the decadent candy that had eluded my eager hands and parlay them into the Toffee [...]

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Cranberry Nut Bread

November 29, 2009

Well, it’s a good thing I like cranberries. What did your junior high home ec teacher always tell you to do before you started to prepare a recipe? Read it first. Not just give it a quick scan, but actually read it through so you understand what you’re about to do. For some reason, that [...]

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Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

November 27, 2009

Whew! As much fun as Thanksgiving cooking was, I’m actually kind of glad to switch over to other late-autumn treats (if you’re looking for some good leftover turkey ideas, check out the leftover panini recipes on my other food blog – Panini Happy). Cookies call my name all year round, and as we enter part [...]