For Christmas Eve this year, I decided to make a homemade tourtière. A tourtière is a French-Canadian meat pie, traditionally including game (rabbit, elk, etc…), but many contemporary recipes include a mix of ground beef and pork (or just one or the other!). This is a dish that various members of my Canadian family have…
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My Favorite Cookie: Shortbread
Ah, shortbread. Buttery, delicious shortbread. Eating a tin of Walkers shortbread cookies is one of my FAVORITE things to do around the holiday season. Shortbread cookies have been a pretty typical stocking stuffer in my family for as long as I can remember. There is something about the simple, melt-in-your-mouth butter cookie that just gets…
Traditional Dark Fruitcake
As usual, it’s been quite some time since I’ve added a post – and I realized that I missed celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Twizzling Whimsies!?!? Time flies during quarantine, or something? I started this silly little blog in 2009, and I never would have guessed that it would still be alive (just barely)…
The search for the perfect salsa recipe
In the nearly 7 years since we moved to Tucson, I’ve been searching far and wide for the perfect salsa recipe. I don’t know if I’ve found it yet, but this one has come pretty close to replicating the salsa of one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in town – Rosa’s. This is a great…
Curried Nuts (plus a new focus on spice)
All! Hello! It’s literally been YEARS since I posted on the blog. I’ve been in a writing funk; work was so busy that I lost sight of many of the things of I enjoy, including cooking on a regular basis. This morning I decided that there was no time like the present to refocus, so…
Roasted Olives… and a new CSA!
Last weekend I signed us up for a new CSA – one that will ultimately be closer to our new home. This CSA is through Sleeping Frog Farms, and so far our first pick-up has been successful! They have sign-ups quarterly, so right now we just started the “Winter” quarter. Although we just did our…
Hello Again!
It has undoubtedly been some time since I’ve written. Summer was busy (and so hot…) and frankly I just didn’t do much cooking or baking (or at least nothing worth writing about). Now that the weather has started to change (no more days in the triple digits! Hopefully…) I’m starting to feel inspired again to head back…
Butternut Squash Bisque
Yipee! I have another successful soup recipe under my belt! I’m not a huge soup person – it’s never something I get cravings for. But I’m starting to think that maybe I just really like smooth, blended soups. I loved my Chioggia Beet Borscht, and now I love this Butternut Squash Bisque. I had two…
Panna Cotta = Creamy Deliciousness
This past weekend our house was christened with it’s first official “local” guests! These were’t our first guests ever – my parents helped us move and stayed with us for a while, and Rebecca (my good friend from Chicago) came to stay with us for a few days just before the holidays. But on Friday…
Chioggia Beet Borscht… I actually liked it!
Who knew? Going into it, I honestly had no idea how I would feel about borscht. Pureed beets and broth? Meh. However, since I had chioggia beets on hand from last week’s CSA share, I figured there was no better time like the present to give borscht a try. I won’t hold you in too…
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