Category: Holiday

I used to be afraid of pie. The rules about cold hands and precise handling, the rolling and the cracking and the patching and the shrinking - it all gave me hives. …

The Christmas season is an exciting time for mail. Instead of the usual bills and solicitations (though there are plenty of those), each day's post brings cards from friends, and my guilty pleasure -- Christmas …

If you've read this blog for any length of time, you may have gathered that when it comes to Christmas food, I'm a traditionalist. We've had the same meal for Christmas dinner every year …

One upon a time, long ago, a fair maiden embarked upon a journey across the seas to study arts and letters with great minds of her age. On her journey, she encountered a knight, …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5196820175/" title="Pumpkin Pie 1 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5196820175_7049146db4.jpg" width="333" height="500" class="aligncenter" alt="Pumpkin Pie 1" /></a> My darling husband is not a picky man. He will cheerfully eat just about everything I …

I was very sad to have missed the summer jam season this year. With all the craziness around buying the house and moving, I never got around to putting up plum jam, or strawberry …

Fall themed desserts are all over these days - pumpkin bread puddings, cranberry panna cotta, pecan trifle. And those of us with a confirmed fear of rolling pins grasp at these desperately.  …