If you plan to start 2010, not with an all-night booze bash, but, instead, with a civilized and refined (though possibly booze-including) brunch on New Year’s Day, then I highly recommend that you make this Egg Nog-Sweet Bread French Toast to serve or take along. If the prognosis for the entire year can be gauged… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Holidays & Entertaining
Happy Holidays
I hope you and yours have a wonderful, peaceful – and ideally not quite as snowy as that picture there – holiday.
A Favorite Holiday Cake: Apple-Cinnamon Cake for Hoarding or Giving
I feel a sense of comfort writing this post. Not like I’m wearing a favorite pair of jeans, for my hips and inherited semi-pro-football-playing-dad’s thighs have never quite been at their most comfortable in jeans, but as though a favorite friend, long missed, has come for a visit. This apple cake has served me well,… Continue Reading
Mom’s Mushy Stuffing
There are some foods from our youth, regardless of how darned sophisticated one’s palate becomes later in life, that simply cannot be replaced, especially at the holidays. My mother’s mushy stuffing is firmly in this category. It is a stuffing that, at one time or another, all four McCoy children have asked for the recipe… Continue Reading
Pumpkin-Maple Tiramisu
This dish graced our Thanksgiving table a few years ago in its original form as Epicurious’ Super-Simple Pumpkin Tiramisu. Man, those Epi people don’t lie. Super-simple, indeed. I’ve started doing time trials on the making of this tiramisu, and on the last round, from the time I placed my stand mixer on the counter until… Continue Reading