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Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Fruit, Candy, Rum, How To, America, Spirits, Sugar, Christmas If you're heading out on the town for New Year's Eve, well go ahead, get dolled up and ignore this post. This one is for those of us who will be doing the razzling and dazzling at home (in the kitchen, of course). All you need is a little ...

Filed under: Dessert, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Candy, Baking, How To, Spices, Sugar, Christmas We're a little behind on our a Cookie-a-Day, but we'll try to catch up before the end of the year. We have to! Starting on January 1, all of us will be forgoing cookies, candy, doughnuts, and cake, as per our New Year's Resolutions, ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Sugar, Holidays, ChristmasFor the next two weeks I'm in Portland, Oregon, hanging out with my parents for the holidays. One of the first things I did when I got here was pull down my mom's old recipe notebook and start flipping through. She's had this collection of recipes since before I was born, although she ...

Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Recipes, Fruit, Candy, Baking, How To, Eggs, America, Sugar, Christmas At this point in the grand game we call ''The Race to Finish Holiday Baking,'' we're looking at cookies and confections that are easy, fast, but still have that ''ooooh''-inducing factor. Perhaps the easiest thing I've ever come across in ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Baking, On the Blogs, Sugar, ChristmasI've been wrapped up in finishing my masters thesis this last week (thankfully it's finally all done) so I haven't done much in the way of holiday baking. So today, instead of offering you a recipe that I've tried and can vouch for, I'm pointing you in the direction of a recipe for ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, On the Blogs, ChristmasWhen I was in elementary school, we had a neighbor who made her own candy for Christmas every year. She mostly made black and white marbled chocolates in the shape of Santa and snowmen, that she would put on sticks for easier eating. One year she branched out and made her own hard candy ...