A guide to making life a little more fabulous
So, remember the brunch situation for which I baked 9,000 gooey cinnamon rolls? I figured that wasn’t going to be enough for the four of us.
Well, the weather outside is frightful.
Lemon bars don’t necessarily scream “Christmas,” but they are so good that it doesn’t really matter.
So, are you getting in the holiday spirit yet? Baking any cookies? Going to cookie exchanges? Getting tangled in your Christmas lights? Yelling at people who take your space in the Nordstrom parking lot? Anything? Someone (ahem) got rid of our artificial.
We can’t all afford Blair Waldorf’s fabulous clothes.
On the fifth day of Christmas cookies, I give to you: easy, low-calorie shortbread.
This is a perfect time of year to wish — like all good Miss America candidates — for world peace.
As you may know, I love vintage clothes.
I make gingerbread every year, partly because the little gingerbread men are so cute and partly because they are so delicious with pumpkin dip (recipe at the bottom).
Peppermint patties may be my favorite chocolate candy.
It’s almost Christmas! Today I was going to give you cookies AND photos of 10 lords-(aka hot guys)-a-leaping, but it is surprisingly difficult to find photos of hot guys jumping.
These cookies could really be made at any time of year, but they definitely say Christmas to me — whether you call them Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes or something else.
Merry Christmas! I hope Santa brought you everything you asked for… but since he may have eaten all your cookies, I’ve got your back.
You should know that I generally dislike soup.
While I am just making things up as I go along, my friend Isabel is a registered holistic nutritionist and graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts — so she actually knows what she’s talking about.
***So remember how I told you Isabel knows things, but I make them up? Apparently my darling husband accidentally bought collards instead of kale.
I have had a subscription to Bon Appetit for a year (after they shuttered Gourmet) and read it every month… but none of the recipes ever looked very good to me.