Easy candied orange peel
When December rolls around, you can count on me to first start thinking of what holiday treats I’ll be creating. Shortbread is a given, both sweet and savory. Fruitcake (yes!). Something chocolate, whether that’s a dark flourless cookie or almond roca bars, or – in rare years – chocolate fudge. And candied orange peel. It’s…
Oven dried apples and pears
When we were talking on Saturday, you mentioned that meditating for only a few minutes a day can help increase grey matter in your brain. I know it’s a good practice, but I’ve found it challenging to sustain it daily. Your comment got me thinking again. First, that I will try, again, to build meditation…
Arugula salad with pomegranate, feta and walnuts
What a crazy couple of weeks in late December. Like you said, Eve, much of it was happy and festive. But having Mom in hospital for almost a week with pneumonia over the holidays shook me up, maybe more than it should have. Sitting with her in the hospital around lunchtime on Christmas Day was…
Peppermint Patties: so easy, so good
Cookie night seems like a long time ago now – almost as long ago as the day I promised to post this recipe “tomorrow.” A lot has happened in the meantime, some of it happy, some of it worrisome. Here’s the conundrum of a family food blog: when illness rides through the centre of Christmas…
Claus’s Chocolate Crinkles
Fudgy, soft, with the intense chocolate flavor that comes from using unsweetened Baker’s chocolate, the Crinkles have a sweet layer on the outside yielding to a slightly more bitter taste inside. They look fancy, but the oven does the decorating, so as long as you remember to make the dough at least six hours before…
Chocolate-Dipped Cappuccino Shortbread: do Christmas cookies get better than this?
Imagine a rich, coffee-flavored shortbread dipped in dark chocolate, served cold, so the chocolate snaps when you bite into it. If there’s a better Christmas cookie, I haven’t met it. A caterer called Jane Bailey invented these Cappuccino Shortbread cookies, and gave the recipe to the Vancouver Sun for a story on gifts from the…
Of moose and men: truly great gingerbread cookies
I no longer know who Betty was, or why we ran her recipe, but I’ve been making Betty’s Traditional Gingerbread since the first Christmas I worked in the food section at the Vancouver Sun, in 1987. I was planning to make a gingerbread house, but I was busy. The dough stayed in the fridge, Christmas…
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