I really need to get going on my holiday baking, as I said in the York Peppermint Brownie post. Sadly, I’m still way behind. I spent the past two weekends working on my Christmas decorations, and that was a lot of work. 17 trees are up and decorated so far,…
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Guys, it didn’t occur to me that when I started posting recipes that meant I was going to have to post my SECRET recipes. This is painful, but this time of year I basically prepare for Christmas and those preparations involve my secret Christmas recipes. This weekend I made some…
If you saw the apple butter pie or plum butter posts, you probably are getting the message: fruit butters are easy to make even if you’re super busy. I was at the grocery store the other day and saw that pears were on sale. So clearly I was required by…
Do you like fruitcake? Let me rephrase that. Have you tried fruitcake? Because it seems that about 99% of fruitcake haters have never taken a single bite of fruitcake. And don’t get me started on people who hate it when you tell them it’s fruitcake but love it when you…
It’s definitely time to get started on my homemade Christmas gifts for the year. Up first is this plum butter! When I told my mother I was making plum butter she just kept saying “Ew!” over and over again. I’m not sure why. Plums are delicious, so plums cooked down…
Last week I posted about making burlap rag wreaths for my front doors, so I’m sure you’re thinking “why would you need more Valentine’s wreaths?” Well, Mother Dearest needs wreaths too! Her doors are much more exposed than mine are, so I thought I’d give that Deco Mesh stuff a…