Month: December 2019

Yes. It is another lemon-based recipe. I’m still working my way through the bag of lemons and the big bottle of juice I’ve squeezed. My spouse suggested perhaps a creamy lemon pasta dish would be good. I resoundingly agreed and set about cobbling together a workable recipe. Any cream sauce is really just butter, flour, […]

It is holiday baking time again and I’ve been tweaking recipes or riffing on old recipes in order to come up with things for this year’s holiday bakery box. One recipe I decided needed a new spin were the double chocolate cookies. This started out as a Mrs Fields recipe but over the years has […]

This fall I began a bit of a food research project about mincemeat. As a child in rural Maine, mincemeat was something which was made every fall when my dad harvested a deer. We’d typically have a pie made of it at either/both Thanksgiving and Christmas time. I didn’t realize when I moved away to […]

This year I made roasted leg of lamb for Thanksgiving dinner. It was super tasty and we found many delicious leftovers, like gyros, for the slices of lamb. However, I was left with a leg of lamb bone with quite a bit of meat on it which I wanted to use. My family would typically […]

Like many families, my family typically has turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes etc for Thanksgiving dinner. However, this year we decided to switch things up a little bit. Some of this was due to the fact that my freezer was full of way too much stuff and I needed to make room. However, it was also […]

Thanks to being overrun with lemons, I’ve been pinboarding and trying lemon recipes left and right this fall. One I decided to make a couple weeks ago was Lemon Biscotti. Biscotti are Italian type of cookie. Their name comes from the Italian for biscuit, which is what most Europeans call “cookies”. They are different from […]