I have purchased no eggnog this year. Normally, I would be on my second carton by now. When I first spotted cartons of eggnog in the dairy aisle a few weeks ago, however, it just didn’t seem worth the calories. Part of this attitude, admittedly, results from attending boot camp at 5:30 a.m. three days [...]
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Nostalgic foods aren’t always satisfying
Posted in Christmas, Eats, Family, tagged boot camp, cake pops, Christmas, eggnog, grandparents, holiday memories, holidays, Huntsville Adventure Boot Camp, Madison Adventure Boot Camp, memories, nostalgia, nostalgic foods, red velvet cake pops, Santa mugs on December 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Deck the blogs with boughs of holly: Rocket City Bloggers contemplate the holidays
Posted in Christmas, Huntsville, tagged blogging, Christmas music, Christmas tree, holiday baking, holiday crafts, holiday memories, holiday treats, Huntsville, huntsville alabama, nostalgia, Rocket City Bloggers, Santa on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Everybody’s got something to say about the holidays. As Christmas nears, even the most thick-skinned writers seem to get the nostalgia bug. Some of us simply enjoy the sheer culinary freedom afforded by the season’s party circuit and feel compelled to share their kitchen adventures (cake pops and glittering lemon sandwich cookies are among the [...]
Mysteries of the cake pop revealed
Posted in Christmas, Eats, Photographs, tagged Bakerella, cake balls, cake pops, chocolate, chocolate coating, Christmas, cooking, cracked cake balls, dipping cake balls, double boiler, food, food blogs, holidays, lollipop sticks, microwave, photograph, postaday2011, preventing cracked cake balls, sprinkles on January 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I got cake balls right this year. I followed Bakerella’s instructions, for the most part, but I also scouted around on a few other food blogs to try to improve on my last effort. I discovered four secrets: Chill the undipped cake balls in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to get them firm [...]
As Pictured Below: Jolly Decor
Posted in As Pictured Below, Christmas, Photographs, Travel, tagged Christmas, cold, December, decorations, iPhone, Manhattan, New York, photograph, Rockefeller Center, TiltShiftGen, TiltShiftGenerator, travel, vacation on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Freezing near the Rockefeller Center, I ungloved one hand long enough to get this shot, because I knew I just HAD to run it through the TiltShift Generator. If I make any more trips to Manhattan in December, I’m getting a pair of those iPhone-friendly gloves.
The final holiday project: cake balls
Posted in Christmas, Eats, Photographs, tagged Bakerella, cake balls, Christmas, food, gloves, holidays, iPhone, kitchen, party, photograph, red velvet cake, whistling on December 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t make pretty food. (I also don’t seem to be able to make pretty photographs of light-colored objects.) So why I zoned in on Bakerella’s Red Velvet Cake Balls several months ago is up for discussion. Whatever the reason, I decided they were the perfect dessert for wherever I was going to spend Christmas. [...]
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