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BÛCHE De NÖEL (Yule Log/ Holiday Log Cake/Chocolate Cream Roll aka Sponge Cake)

This particular cake recipe dates back to my childhood in terms of my own recollection, but the Yule Log aka BÛCHE De NÖEL has been a holiday favorite for centuries. Before moving out to the suburbs, my mother worked in the city–New York City to be exact. There was a famous and unusual eatery there called the Horn & Hardart “Automat” where sometimes, for a splurge, on a vacation day she would go and get a rare lunch out, or sometimes just a dessert. Other images of the Automat from that time can be found here. The last New York

Holiday Baking Pointers & Tips Series Kickoff

Who doesn’t love the smell of something yummy baking in the oven? The sensory impact of cookies baking is one many of us can remember fondly from childhood if anyone in our families baked regularly or if we just walked by an open bakery door. Today’s blog post will kick the work week off by focusing on an overview of cookies and their ingredients and mention where to find a wonderful sugar cookie recipe worth making.

Holiday Baking – Developing Flavor Notes in Cookies

As part of our Holiday Baking series of blog posts, today the focus will be on ways to develop more flavor notes in cookies to increase your sensory enjoyment of them. A variation of a sugar cookie that so many people enjoy is some version of a chocolate chip cookie. Everyone has their favorite variation of the classic recipe, however, not everyone may be making the dough 1-2 days ahead of time before baking it off. Why make and refrigerate dough 1-2 days in advance then of when you plan to bake the cookies? Read on to find out the

Holiday Baking – What’s Fat Got To Do With It?

To create different cookie varieties, one “tweaks” a basic formula, resulting in a plethora of possibilities. We mentioned about that formula or ratios concept in a 28Nov2011 post. Today’s blog post mentions one of those other ingredients commonly found in cookies…fat.

Holiday Baking – Keep Some Flavor, Skip Some Fat

Want to lower the fat content of your holiday baked goods, but not quite sure how to accomplish that? Read today’s blog for some helpful suggestions that may help you keep some flavor, but skip some fat.

Fat Substitutions For Holiday Baking (pdf “Free Gift” download)

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Holiday Tins Make Quick, Lovely, Simple Gifts

Some of the best gifts at the holidays are the simplest ones. Take, for example, the gift of a lovely, simple holiday tin. You can fill it with a plethora of possibilities, and it is a festive reminder of the spirit of giving during this winter holiday season, no matter which holidays you might happen to celebrate. Do you know where some of the nicest holiday tins come from?

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION MENU IDEAS

(“Merry Christmas with Santa Hat” Embroidery Design Image Courtesy of www.soniashowalterdesigns.com) This year’s “Christmas Menu Ideas” list contains some hot links to many of the recipes, just in case you might be interested in any of those. Italians also typically keep fruit bowls and also nut bowls around at holiday time with seasonal favorites. The fruits will often be citrus in skins or intact other varieties, while the nuts will be “in the shell” with the metal nutcracker and nut pick handy for shelling a couple or few at a time…

Roasted Chicken or Roasted Turkey Breast w/ Pan Drippings Gravy

There are many ways to Roast one or two (~ 7 lbs each) Roasting Chicken(s) or a similar size Turkey Breast for Thanksgiving (these are alternatives to cooking a whole turkey, or doing Cornish hens, etc., of course). The choice is yours as to what you choose to roast, and several possible approaches to roasting any poultry, including using a metal rack inside any poultry cavity exist–see which approach you prefer! Luckily, excellent information exists on the www from many reliable sources to guide you through safe preparation of any frozen and then thawed, or fresh poultry product so that you can

Bulgur Winter Wheat Stuffing

This Bulgur Stuffing, originally published by the American Institute for Cancer Research, may be a little hard to read in the copy found on the www, so I have re-typed it for you below.