Whipped Out

This is a short week for Hubby and me. We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary on the 28th, and so my in-laws are taking the kids AND the dogs and Hubby and I are taking a trip to Quebec City. Our menu for the week is three nights long with a planned night for takeout or [...]

So after much reading and fun with cookbooks, I’ve decided on the Passover Seder II: Electric Bugaloo menu. Behold – and thank you for all your suggestions and ideas!
In addition to the traditional matzoh, charoset, horseradish and assorted other Seder-y type foods, we’re serving:
Matzoh Ball Soup: using the Cooks’ Country recipe (Login required, I’m sorry!) [...]

My husband’s parents’ 40th wedding anniversary is this coming week, so Hubby and I decided to make a family dinner for them. We had them come to us because if we went there, my mother in law wouldn’t leave the kitchen. If they came to us, we’d cook and clean and she could play with [...]

Every year, I make these cookies for Hubby. They’re labor-intensive and include putting the cookie dough in the fridge not once but twice, plus boiling water and grating ginger and whacking the crap out of some chocolate and yet they are so freaking good it’s worth it all. And he loves them. So some [...]

I think most of you are going “uh…what?”. I had never heard of cracker candy until about 3 or 4 years ago, when we did our first cookie exchange for our playgroup. My friend Jennifer did this for the exchange and I fell so madly in love with it. It’s probably just about the easiest [...]