Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Dessert Made in advance for New Year’s Eve I’ve liked custards ever since I learned to make them in 7th grade in mandatory Home Ec. There are very easy, especially if baked. I used a variation of Alton Brown’s recipe for the crème brûlée I choose to make for our
Everyone makes a big effort to end the year. New Year’s Eve started with a prosecco. The amuse bouche was ready – Castelvetrano olives with Terra chips. And the champagne was sitting with a thermometer reading 50°F on the back porch. The oysters would need opening. The ravioli needed making,
Presents Dessert Every since I’ve been spending Christmas with my husband’s British family, the option for Christmas dinner dessert has been a Christmas pudding. Having grown up on Jello as pudding, I thought this spice bread in the shape of a bowl was a bit of a joke on the
Rose Beranbaum’s Recipes Christmas cookie baking was a tradition in my house when I was growing up, so I continued it after I met my husband and we set up house, and while my kids were little, I’d invite over another mom and her kids to help. We’d spend the
Black Chocolate Cinnamon Red Hots and White Chocolate Green Tea Ever since my friend Michele asked us to go by Ladurée in Paris, I’ve been trying to make macarons that look as good as the trees full of cookies that fill their windows. Our first macaron attempts back in Colorado
My traditional Christmas cookies: My sister doesn’t bake much because she is trying to stay on a heart healthy diet. Christmas, and our family tradition of cookie making, leads her into temptation. My answer is to bake with much-better-than-average ingredients and eat half as much. Since I was born,
From 9 a.m. until 4 in the afternoon, I watched my friends make kipferl after kipferl, in addition to other Viennese cookies that their mother had always made. Mad, and gave away to the neighbors. These grown women -sisters – love to make these cookies now because they can either
I just signed up for a year’s subscription to the on-line version of Cooks Illustrated and wanted to take advantage of my $17.95 investment, so I read their opinion of the ideal cooking equipment. I have it. The perfect pot and pan collection. With one exception. I own a big
We purchased part of a cow, raised by people we know, and so we are making beef stock. We’ve got a packed freezer and pulling out the bones and a packet labeled ‘soup meat’ made enough room so that we could close the door. Having not really made a batch