When I sat down to think about what this album felt like, what it exuded from a food perspective, it took me back to high school. Perhaps because this album played non-stop during those years and also, if you think about the biggest song from this album The Middle, it was all about high school. My […]
Category: Dessert
Frosted Chai-Spiced Sugar Cookies & Simply Christmas
When it comes to Christmas cookies and music, I tend to want the classics. The flavors that I only get to have once a year, sugar cookies with icing and decorations, butterballs, thumbprints and gingerbread. They almost taste like Christmas. Music for years has been very similar. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, A Very Special Christmas […]
Traditional Butterballs & A Charlie Brown Christmas
I mentioned that I’m a Christmas ‘purist’, I also really love Christmas traditions. My family had so many things that were special and traditional around Christmas time, I really owe my love of Christmas to my parents. They crafted an incredible experience for us growing up centered around family, experiences that only happened at Christmas […]
Brown Butter Coconut Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies & The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album
As an adult, Christmas can sometimes lose some of its magic or lose its innocence perhaps. (Caution for anyone reading this, if you know that Santa still exists, STOP reading immediately.) The magic of waking up Christmas morning to find the tree full lit, the bottom bursting with presents and the stockings filled to the […]
Spiced Triple Ginger Cookies & Someday at Christmas
Christmas is one of my most anticipated times of the year. I look forward to the whole month of December, setting up the Christmas tree, the stockings and playing my Christmas vinyl. I’m a Christmas ‘purist’, I only play Christmas music during the month of December, I refuse to start any earlier. Mostly. The longer […]