I gave myself the task of recreating my mother’s Christmas coffee cake, with mixed results, mostly wonderful. Our weather has once again been all over the place 50 degrees out yesterday, rain, all the snow vanished and we have green grass again in the fields. Then, the Champlain Winds picked up again and a cold…
Month: December 2025
Sylvia’s Oatmeal Apple Rum Cookies and the silly saga of how they grew up.
A misunderstanding led to the greatly evolved oatmeal cookie we all love When I was first on my own, I made my mother’s oatmeal cookies several times but they were never quite the same as hers. Although they tasted great, they didn’t look right or have the same texture; they were flatter and not as…
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What to cook when your fingers are frozen and you fall asleep by the fire.
Well, they had thawed out by the time I actually started cooking. It’s been cold. Winter is here, and temperatures have been unseasonably lower than usual, just 1 degree F. when I woke up yesterday, certainly more frigid than recent years in early December. Time to go to the fair So, what do hearty Vermonters…
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What to pair with the grey early December landscape in New England? Color! We need some vibrant color!
November may be over, but the grey skies and landscapes remain, and our days continue to dwindle to what seems like precious few hours of light. Today is the meteorological beginning of winter, the three coldest months of the calendar year. We always question if we are ready for it, but it definitely is an…
