This comes straight from my workbook at George Brown - slightly adapted of course. I want to tell you, we took a lot of baked goods home from these classes. I would come home every evening with boxes of breads, cookies, cakes - if we baked it, we took it home. Then some went to [...]

This recipe came to me via a good friend (and accomplished baker herself) in Minneapolis.  It's an award winning recipe from a contest run through their local newspaper.  It's Italian Almond Cookies.  Plenty of variations out there, but again, I only send you the ones I try and that my taste testers like.  They (my [...]

Okay I must admit, the snow yesterday did bring back memories of Christmas 2013. But, perhaps we've been spoiled by never having severe storms that we have become a bit leery of the weather. However, things are back to normal, the sun is out and it is a glorious Canadian winter day - but only [...]

This is an old one from my 1997 Gourmet Magazine, Christmas Cookie Edition. It is a delight. Unlike other cookies which you can just pull together and cut from a refrigerated log, or roll and cut out, you need some patience to make these as the pretzel shape is a bit of a challenge (well [...]

I love the taste of lemon, actually it's citrus I love. Any type of citrus - oranges, limes, grapefruit, kumquats, pomelos etc. The flavors bring out warmth and on these cold(er/ish) days, we all need some warmth. So when looking for cookies to make for this series, I came across this one and thought it [...]

Now we're rolling. This is a great biscotti recipe. As always, I try lots, but only post the ones that work best for me on my site. I made these small - a Christmas cookie thing. Rather than forming one log in the dimensions stated in the original recipe, I made 3 logs about 12" x 3" [...]

I call them "jam filled" rather than raspberry filled sugar cookies as the recipe suggests.  I have all kinds of jam in my house.  Whenever my kids travel and they find an unusual flavor of jam - or anything that remotely implies "chili" flavor - yes they know their dad, they will bring back a [...]

Okay, it's official, December is here! It's the Christmas season! Here's the first of 12 cookies as promised. Last year I got to 10, then we had a bit of a power failure - 2 1/2 days (seemed like forever, boy are we spoiled - and very lucky, to be living in this city!) - [...]