Having celebrated our wedding anniversary this week (the cotton one) I decided to dust off one of our wedding gifts and whip up a batch of strawberry ice cream. Strawberries are really coming into season now and I was further encouraged by a posting I saw about how the strawberry picking season has arrived earlyContinue reading “Strawberry Ice Cream – Another Easy Ratio”
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More Christmas Cookies – Thumbprint cookies
Another one of my favorites. These are really simple to make and they cook pretty quickly too. Like all the other “Christmas” cookies from when I was little, these would only get made once a year. They’re probably good anytime, but for some strange reason they only get made at Christmas. My mom still makesContinue reading “More Christmas Cookies – Thumbprint cookies”
My Favorite Christmas Cookie – Porlos Testa
Remember how I said my Grandmother’s stuffing was one of the first recipes of hers I got? Well this is the very first one. Porlos testa (TEE-sta). Nothing says Christmas to me like these “cookies.” I suppose they’re more like a pastry but growing up they were my favorite, and still are. These were reallyContinue reading “My Favorite Christmas Cookie – Porlos Testa”
The Roaming GastroGnome 