We decided to spend both Christmas and New Year’s weekends at home this year. We’d traveled for Thanksgiving and that was enough for us. On top of the two long weekends, I also had two personal days at work that I needed to use before the end of the year – so I ended up with two 4-day weekends in a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
The Day Before the Resolutions Kick In (Recipe: Three-Onion Casserole)
Posted in Fall vegetables, Main dishes, Side dishes, Vegetables, Vegetarian, tagged boursin, casserole, cheese, Christmas, decadent, festive, festive cookbook, Gruyere, Havarti, holidays, leeks, long weekend, New Year's, onion casserole, party food, potluck dish, red onions, roasted onions, Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, slow-roasted, three cheese casserole, white onions, wine on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Vanilla Whipped Sweet Potatoes
Posted in Fall vegetables, Side dishes, Vegetables, Vegetarian, tagged bean pod, Christmas, Food and Wine, food processor, half-and-half, sweet potato puree, sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving, vanilla, vanilla bean, vanilla cream, whipped sweet potatoes, whipping cream on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This incredible recipe is apparently originally from Food & Wine Magazine, though I am sure that I first found it somewhere else – another take-off, no doubt, but I can see why. I made this for Thanksgiving two years ago and promptly made it again for Christmas. Last year, I made something different (still sweet potatoes, [...]
German Christmas Stollen
Posted in Breads, Quick/sweet breads, tagged baking, Christmas, German, holiday, stollen, sweet breads on December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The days are flying by alarmingly lately; Christmas is hurtling at us (those of us who care, presumably) rather too fast. If you ask me, it’s too late for shopping; you’re guaranteed to get in a fender-bender, so you might as well stay home. It’s even too late for shopping online, as indicated by the [...]




