I know that when “they” say “luck be a lady”, “they” mean for luck to be kind, genteel, and/or ladylike, but for the sake of a lovely alliteration (gotcha!) for today’s title, please grant me this folly of luck being a lentil. In Italian tradition, lentils are eaten at the New Year to help foster… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Recipes
Butternut Squash Ravioli in a Maple-Cream Sauce
I am sometimes guilty of getting a bit carried away with doing things in the most time-consuming fashion. I’d appreciate it, family, if you would stop laughing now. Thank you. It’s just that I enjoy making things myself – whether it be a gift, artwork, a note card, or a meal – and so I… Continue Reading
A Go-To Dessert
For our Christmas celebration this year, my sister came up with the idea that we should have a bake-off. The only criteria of the bake-off being that each person bring a dessert they had never before made. Now, my normal holiday dessert is Tiramisu, which I love, and which normally gets pretty good reviews, mostly… Continue Reading
Nothing says Happy Holidays quite like a Pan di Toni
This holiday season, I’m giving a little more baking cheer than material cheer, though I suppose that the baking cheer could result in an extra pound or two on the midsection of those receiving apple cake, assorted cookies, and – a new addition to my baking repertoire, one which also happens to fulfill my yeast-bread-a-week… Continue Reading
Extra-Gingery Gingerchews
I’d like to call these cookies gingersnaps, but that would be a misnomer. These ginger cookies don’t snap at all. They chew. And they chew good, if you don’t mind my saying so. I’ve been making them around the holidays for the past eight or so years, and every time I pawn them off on… Continue Reading