Chris Nordquist
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 […]
This week the weather turned chilly in New York, and I started to rough out our family plans for the Holidays. This led me to happy thoughts of Holiday food and drink, and, more specifically, to how it might be nice to experiment with some homemade liqueurs and infusions to serve to guests and give […]
Recently we celebrated our daughter Julia’s first birthday with a small cocktail party at our New York apartment. (Julia worked the room, blew out her candles –with a little help– and then retired to her room at 7:30, as usual.) I wanted to serve hors d’oeuvres that featured the bright flavors of late summer produce. […]
