Archive for December, 2007
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
A Plate of Christmas Joy!
We’re in Dallas with the Grandangels, who have kept me so busy that I haven’t had time to even think about blogging. Our youngest grandson, who is now 5, loves to help ‘Granny’ cook, so we busied ourselves two days before Christmas making sugar cookie dough. A half-recipe’s worth from Mark Bittman’s fabulous (must [...]
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Jonny Bowden Draws Down on Diet Drinks
I just got an email from our good friend, Jonny Bowden, with a link to his latest exchange in an ongoing ‘dialog’ with Big Soda about the inherent health detriment of pushing diet sodas on the public as if they were health food.
Some of you may be familiar with Jonny and may thus have seen [...]
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
My Kind of Christmas Cookie Recipe!
In our household, and in my own family from my earliest memories onward, making Christmas cookies was a cherished holiday tradition. With my mother, we pulled out all the stops, making gorgeous sugar cookies in the shapes of reindeers, Santas, stars, trees, wreaths, candy canes, bells, angels, and snowmen, each handpainted with colored icing. [...]
