Tag: desserts

<br /><br /> Some of my friends who read this blog seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am a gourmet cook. While I do occasionally go<a href="http://www.thedomesticfront.com/2010/01/04/new-years-eve-thedomesticfront-style/"> a little crazy with some super …

I've always been a Christmas fiend, but having a child brings the whole season into sharper focus. This year the Nuni is old enough to get it -- she can sing all of the …

So let's say you've made your Fruitcake, thoroughly doused it in liquor, and now you want to serve it on Christmas Eve. You have bought into the joys of fruitcake, but now you …

It's the Monday before Christmas. You've baked your fruitcake, braved the mall, passed all the shipping deadlines and if you're anything like me, are more than ready to settle down for a long winter's …

I don't know if I have an old fashioned palate, or if it's my inner historian, or if I'm just plain curious, but whenever I hear about a recipe or a dish that is extinct …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/4190448666/" title="Bourbon Balls 1 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4190448666_2df87d0c05.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Bourbon Balls 1" /></a><br /><br /> I don't know what it says about the general depravity of my childhood that when I …

Every Christmas season when I was growing up, my mother and I would bake cookies. Sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies, gingerbread. I remember standing at the kitchen counter, stirring the dough, and sitting at the …