January 07, 2011 
Joan 
Every new year, my husband Mark asks for red cabbage. Apparently it was a good luck tradition in his family, though we’re not really sure if it was passed down from his father’s Austrian ancestors or his mother’s Italian relations.
Tag Archives: holiday
Christmas Cookie Classics
Baking certain cookies signals the beginning of the Christmas season. For me, it’s Nut Butter Balls, otherwise known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, Nut Crescents or Russian Tea Cakes. Lots of butter, powdered sugar, ground nuts, flour and vanilla, rolled into
Less Fruity Fruitcake
Fruitcake. Although much maligned, I love these holiday loaves. I know I may be ostracized from this, our 21st century American society, for saying so. But I just can’t help it. Molasses being one of my favorite baking ingredients, I
