http://www.christmas-baking.com/ A growing collection of recipes for the Christmas season, handed down to the author from her grandmother. The site also offers baking hints & tips, on- and off-line sources, and a way to share your own recipes. Copyright (c) 1996-2008 Susan J. Talbutt Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:08:42 -0500 rss@christmas-baking.com rss@christmas-baking.com Whenever I'm downtown at night, I like to try a new restaurant because there is always a new place I haven't tried, and if I want to eat the same-old, same-old I can stay at home. Last night it was Miran at 2034 Chestnut after a massage at Total Serenity at 2108 Walnut. The atmosphere is "take out," but he food is better than that. Miran's a BYOB, and, because I don't usually have a B tucked in my bag, I had the hot tea, which was probably Hyeonmi cha, Korean roasted brown rice tea. It was a wonderful antidote http://www.christmas-baking.com/itsAllAboutTheFood/2008/01/miran_center_city.html http://www.christmas-baking.com/itsAllAboutTheFood/2008/01/miran_center_city.html reviews Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:06:21 -0500 http://www.christmas-baking.com/other.html Just in time for January: all the cool links from the Advent calendar have been added to the Christmas links page so that you can find them in one convenient place! Just look for the snowflake. Monday January 7, 2008 21:28:00 http://www.christmas-baking.com/itsAllAboutTheFood/2008/01/spatze_spatze_man.html http://www.christmas-baking.com/itsAllAboutTheFood/2008/01/spatze_spatze_man.html essays Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:19:57 -0500 Fourteen mini-loaves of Stollen chilling so that I can bake them after picking up my in-laws. They sit on the leftover beer and wine from the party: half a case hard cider, a case of beer, two cases of wine. A case plus of Yuengling is still out back. Soda is ... somewhere else. http://www.christmas-baking.com/itsAllAboutTheFood/2007/12/how_i_spent_my_christmas_even.html http://www.christmas-baking.com/itsAllAboutTheFood/2007/12/how_i_spent_my_christmas_even.html essays Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:48:25 -0500 http://www.christmas-baking.com/rum_balls2.html Got the recipe about 15 years ago from the Bacardi Rum Pamphlet. Thursday December 13, 2007 21:53:41 http://www.christmas-baking.com/itsAllAboutTheFood/2007/12/the_new_advent_calendar_is_up.html Since Thanksgiving, I've been working on what will be a big, longish project: updating the Advent calendar. It no longer links just to a recipe. Instead, each day offers a Christmas memory, a recipe, and a nifty link. And yes,... Saturday December 1, 2007 14:31:53