The Greatest Christmas Gift Ever
This morning, I received what could possibly be described as the most perfectly themed array of gifts that one could anticipate - or at least that I could have anticipated. And the centerpiece of my bundle of gifts? Possibly the most important book of the 20th century. Not Lolita, not A Portrait of the Artist […]
Bread
It seems that there should be more holidays where families bake bread. In Connecticut, my partner’s family bakes bread twice a year, for Thanksgiving and Christmas - loaves and loaves, and they distribute them to their family all over the state. If you come into the kitchen any time from the morning of Christmas eve […]
Goodbye Chanukah, Hello Christmas
Tonight was the last night of Chanukah.
As such, I spent the afternoon doing the only thing conceivable. I spent it making doughnuts.
For a little while, things - specifically the apple filling I was making on the fly - looked pretty grim.
After all was done, they looked more than a little like charcoal briquettes.
Fortunately, both the […]
Chanukah Blog Tour 5767
1. Quick! You must turn a plate of latkes into an upscale gourmet delight (as if they aren’t already?). What would you add to them to dress them up, flavor and/or garnish them?
Since it was my first year making latkes, I’d be wary of venturing too much from the very successful recipe I found. If […]
Hello, Pacific.
Friday night after the Chanukah lights were out (and moments before our roommates had their Christmas Toga Party), we set out for the beach. Colleen had only been to the beach once since we got here, and I’d never been.
It was plenty dark and cold by the time we got there, and all the […]
Latkes for the one you love
Tonight Colleen and I took a stab at making Dreama’s traditional latkes. Things started out a little rough with our lack of a food processor and what with using the blender, and then with the wateriness of the starch they kind of looked like grainy, uncooked mashed potatoes. Watery, grainy, uncooked mashed potatoes.
It got pretty […]
Death by Dreidel
So far, this has truly been the Chanukah of the Dreidel. Colleen’s really getting into the whole “doing it right” thing, so she’s learning the menorah prayers and bought herself one of these itsy bitsy dreidels, and some mint M&M’s to use for gelt (since the store where we bought the dreidel didn’t have proper […]
Gifts for the one you love
This will be my fourth Christmas with my partner; if you ask her opinion, she’ll tell you that last year, it was the year of the gifts, and this year? There can be no more gifts, because what on earth can you be expect to get someone who you have already been with for FOUR […]
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