One of my favorite baking challenges is to thumb through my collection of community cookbooks until I find a recipe I’ve never before seen or tasted. There are never descriptive photographs in these books. Upping the ante even more, all ingredient lists and instructions are of course written in the home cook’s (often less-than-complete) hand …
We live only a mile from the Brookfield Zoo – the largest zoo in Chicagoland – we were even there today. So it was not surprising that my kids suggested making a Gingerbread Zoo. In the past, we’ve made our gingerbread houses from scratch. But this year there simply wasn’t time. And so (I’m still …
Welcome again to the new Teaspoon of Spice blog – I’m the other teaspoon that will be posting and I’m excited to have a venue to share recipes, kitchen, family and food stories with all of you. So for my inaugural post and to add to Serena (Teaspoon of Curry’s) carnival of cakes celebrating our …