What do you serve for Christmas breakfast? Do you plan a big meal with eggs, pancakes, and all of the fixings? Or do you plan for little bites to eat, like bagels, monkey bread, rolls, etc, between the gift opening? Christmas breakfast is hard to plan especially if you jump out of bed, open gifts,…
The baking and candy making continues. Today I want to show you my fairy food, or as some know it, sponge candy. This is a regional candy, I know it from the Mid-west and I have eaten it in England. Do you know it? Have you tried it? If not you should, it is delicious…
Happy Sunday! Only one week left until Christmas! I cannot wait! I am so excited to be with my family and friends, it’s what makes the holidays and for that matter everyday special. The holidays are a perfect time to celebrate and host a party. Today I am at The Enchanted Home guest posting for Tina and sharing ideas…
Did I mention that I have been baking? I am starting to feel like I might be a little sick from all the dough, the sugar and the chocolate. Oh well, these are the sacrifices one has to make all in the name of Christmas. In the last few days I have made 5 different…
As I said yesterday I am baking up a storm, in addition to that I am making candies and chocolates; caramel corn sort of falls in the middle. This is a great little gift to include with your cookie trays, send to kids at college or anyone that likes popcorn or caramel corn. This recipe comes from a…
Wow! The holidays are coming fast, I am starting to feel as if perhaps my baking aspirations were a little too ambitious this year. Oh well, if everything doesn’t get finished, just more things to try next year. This is a fabulous, easy recipe for the holidays. You can make the dough ahead, put in…
In addition to the museums, churches, cups of chocolate chaud and kir royals, and of course eating everything from eclairs, crepes, sandwich fromage and any other thing that took to my fancy we did manage to do a little shopping both window and otherwise. The windows in Paris run the gamut from really fabulous, to weird,…
I make these cookie all the time, not just at the holidays. Rugelach, which literally means “little twists” in Yiddish, has Jewish Ashkenazic (Polish) origins. They are little rolled cookies with all sorts of filling, from nuts, to preserves, to chocolate and any other combination that you like. Traditionally, the dough in Europe is made with yeast,…
Notre Dame de Paris “ that most terrible church of the most glorious Virgin Mary, mother of God, deservedly shines out, like the sun among stars. And although some speakers, by their own free judgment, because [they are] able to see only a few things easily, may say that some other is more beautiful,…
As with every visit to Paris I always go to Notre Dame, to take in the flying buttresses, the rose window, the beautiful garden, and the history that seeps from the walls and envelopes your senses with the tinge of incense. Christmas is especially beautiful in this almost 850 year old Cathedral because each year the creche…
I have been in Paris for the last week, a short trip before the holidays to take in the sights, a few exhibitions and of course to eat and shop. As I am trying to catch up today with my mail, picking up my pup and all of the other things one has to take care…
Image from Graphics Fairy Good Morning and Happy St. Nick! I hope that you got lots of treats in your shoes or your stocking that you put out last night! Speaking of World Travelers, let me ask you, are you a traveler? An Adventurer? Are you looking for the perfect Christmas gift for yourself(hints for your…
