Chris Nordquist
It looks like something the Grinch looted from Whoville, but it’s actually a Norwegian Kransekake (literally “ring cake”), traditionally served at Christmas, New Year’s and on other special occasions. I always bake several around Christmas to give as gifts and to serve to Holiday guests, and they always make a big impression. More a tower […]
This is the second arrangement I made for my pre-Holiday week in San Francisco in my quick/easy/inexpensive Holiday decorating experiment. (The first was the table arrangement detailed in my December 24 post.) You may recall that the rules of the game were that all of the materials had to be purchased in a single outing […]
I love Holiday desserts –gingerbread, pumpkin pie, persimmon pudding, multitudinous cookies, chocolate everything– but, as the season goes on, one becomes increasingly aware that they’re mostly, well, brown. And eating them on top of meals of roasted meat and fowl, rich sauces, root vegetables and full-bodies wines tends to lull my already heavy-lidded palate toward […]
During the Holidays, most of us end up in a sort of decorating/cooking/baking/eating/drinking/entertaining hyperdrive. It can be great fun, but it can also be too much, and it comes too fast. This year, with a wide-eyed toddler to entertain, I’ve been looking for ways to streamline and simplify our Holiday preparations and carve out […]
