December 30, 2011
Tags: confectionary, half a worm, springerli, Tiddly Penguins, Unplug the Christmas Machine
The Christmas cards have given way to thank you notes. The transition is easy when one uses blank cards. Now I am on to the subject of gifts which I described to my friend Nancy who can tell every time I have deconstructed a thought, as fraught. Gifts can be a mine-field and I’m sure Read the Rest…
November 29, 2010
Tags: anise, black licorice, Christmas cookies, Molly Hashimoto, springerli
It finally happened: After ten years, my springerli is a success. I was missing an ingredient, the same one apparently that my mother missed for, I don’t know, 45 years. There’s a deep psychological truth in there but I don’t know that I have the energy to go looking for it. Maybe it will surface Read the Rest…