My Mom celebrated her 65th birthday on Monday. She’s not one to want attention (ha! don’t tell her about this blog post!!), and particularly around her birthday, but we managed to convince her that we should all go out to…
A Celebration
Annual Croissant Day
Some people call it New Year’s Day but in this household January 1 marks our annual Croissant Day! A day of butter and flour and all kinds of flakey goodness. January 1, 2017 marked the 5th Annual Croissant Day! We’ve…
The Christmas Cake Debate
Are you for or against Christmas fruit cake? I have to admit, I’ve always been on the “for” side… as long as it’s made correctly. And by correctly I mean LOTS of fruit and none of those bitter little pieces.…
Christmas Bake Exchange
Yesterday afternoon we held our annual Christmas Bake Exchange. This is the seventh year for this annual event (which only took a short hiatus last year because I had to travel for work). It is such an amazing collaboration among…
Ice Cream and Nusstorte
We held our fifth annual Swissmas this past weekend. I don’t think I’ve ever posted about this fusion dinner event that my best friend and I organize once a year in November. It think the initial rational behind it was…