Cardamom Pistachio Icebox Cookies are a unique and delicious twist on butter cookies. They are one of the Holiday cookies I make every year. Part of being a good parent is putting on a good face when you are troubled. Making sure that personal, or in the case of last Friday, national trauma does not…
Ruperto’s Tender Flaky Cookies: A Great Dairy Free Cookie to Satisfy Shortbread Cravings
With apologies to my dairy free friends who also keep kosher or halal, I have to tell you that these cookies were so delicious, so sublime, that they might have replaced traditional butter-based Scottish shortbread for my favorites of this type of cookie (I will continue to make both though, because Scottish shortbread is fabulous…
Chocolate Shortbread
I have been searching for some time now for a chocolate shortbread recipe that made me happy. I mean, chocolate, shortbread, 2 of my favorite things–should be a marriage made in heaven, right? But many of them were on the dry side to me. Good example: these Carole Walter bars, which were good but not…
I Attended A Family Function… And I Did Not Bring Bundt Cake!
OK, now that you have all recovered from the shock. I am headed to Pittsburgh tomorrow (actually this will be published after I leave so I am there now but let’s not confuse things, shall we?) and I wanted to take some food. First we are staying with my Great Aunt Blanche in Wheeling and…