Who doesn’t love the combination of chocolate and tart cherries? (I do! I do!) We’ve been looking for a no-butter recipe for biscotti for a while and finally found one that was too tempting to pass up. The addition of dried cherries is my own — the original recipe uses walnuts. The tang of tart …
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Gram’s Recipe Box: Nut Horns
Just in time for the holiday cookie season, we were given the gift of another recipe from T’s grandmother’s recipe box, this time for one of her personal favorites, Nut Horns. I had never tried a nut horn before baking these last week, but during a recent visit with Gram while she is convalescing and …
Green Tea Shortbread
We do love green tea. Hot or iced, in cakes, ice cream, custard, cookies — it’s all good. We drink almost all teas — green or black — without sugar; more by habit than for health. With sweets, though, we both agree that the best part of the earthy, herbaceous flavor of green tea is …
Gift It: Sweet & Spicy Nuts
(The lead photo is entered in the CLICK! Photo Event sponsored by Bee and Jai at Jugalbandi — a chance for amateur photographers to play with a food theme and get some feedback. December’s theme is, of course, Nuts! Is this droolworthy??) It’s the season for gifting and remembering not just family and friends, …