Tropical Toffee
Note: This toffee recipe recreation was originally published on Eat Boutique. If there’s one thing I’ve gleaned from paging through Liz Gutman and Jen King’s high calorie cookbook it’s that candy...
Pistachio-Cranberry Christmas Cookies
These are actually my new go-to Christmas cookies. I’ve lost count of how many batches I’ve made. Last year I got obsessed baking everything under the sun with pistachios including...
Let the Christmas Pinning Obsession Begin!
Is everyone still pinning obsessed? I know I’m not quite as addicted to Pinterest as I used to be but that doesn’t mean that I still don’t check in almost...
An Early Start to Christmas
We successfully ate our way through Thanksgiving weekend although the way I feel tonight does not bode well for the dictionary definition of “successful” — to be more accurate I suppose you would...
Local Holiday Event Alert
Sorry readers, unless you’re local then the following will not appeal to you but for those of your in the Boston area I’d just like to take a moment to...
Let’s Have a Roast Ornament
Just briefly this evening I thought it might be fun to report that I have definitely found my Christmas ornament to commemorate 2012. When I saw this trio of happy and not...
That Darn Cat: Dexter Strikes Again
Well…Dexter has done it again. Tonight I came home to find one of my favorite little knickknacks shattered. This pretty glass dutch oven happened to be part of a set...
Festive Images from the Great Dickens Christmas Fair
A few weeks ago a google ad (of all things) appeared on the sidebar of a blog advertising something called “The Great Dickens Christmas Fair.” It caught my eye and...