Leftover Candy Cookies
Recipe #1: Leftover Candy Cookies After your family eats lots of Halloween candy, you can donate the rest to: http://www.treatsfortroops.info bake sales, assisted living facilities, and hospitals and...
View ArticleRecipes for Thanksgiving (and Other Occasions)
THANKSGIVING/FALL/WINTER RECIPES Turkey Gravy Compound Butter Stuffing Mashed Potatoes in Three Versions Featuring “Mother-Daughter Mashed Potatoes” and “Skinny-Garlicky Mashed Potatoes” and “Bad...
View ArticleUnsolicited Advice for Thanksgiving Prep, Part 2
[Click here for Part One of Unsolicited Advice for Thanksgiving] Thanksgiving Prep: Time Line Warning: This post is full of great information, but I mean what I say when I call it unsolicited advice....
View ArticleReading Recommendations for Cookie-Baking
These are free and online: 1) Mimi Cummins at www.christmas-cookies.com. Her site doesn’t have swanky graphics or a social media pedigree because it was created pre-TwitterFace, but it is...
View ArticleRecipes: Mandelbrot and Hurry Up Butter Cookies
I think I can resist the urge to share all of the handwritten cookie recipes passed down to me by my paternal grandmother (Thelma Sobo Schotland Heller). Honestly, I bet many of them were only slightly...
View ArticleChristmas Cookies & Jewish Grandmothers: An Essay
For years I’ve been wanting to make some recipes from my late grandmother’s cranberry red recipe tin. Her name was Thelma Sobo Schotland Heller, and she and my grandfather raised my dad in Philip...
View ArticleHamantaschen Dough Recipes and Tips
This post is #2 in my Purim Prep series. Post #1 focused on poppy seed filling, after I’d made it a “mystery food” photo. Post #3 will focus on fillings. This year I’ve baked 3 kinds of hamantaschen...
View ArticleHamantaschen Fillings for Purim
Thanks for visiting my virtual kitchen for this third part of my four-part Purim Prep series. This article focuses on hamantaschen fillings. You may want to read this alongside the previous posts (#1...
View ArticleBrisket and Lokshen Kugel (Noodle Pudding)
I am totally bummed not to have a picture of my noodle pudding to insert with the brisket mosaic. But I am also happy right now, because in working on my cookbook, I’ve finally figured out a way to...
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