How the cookie crumbles…or the challenges of holiday baking

I made it through Thanksgiving this year with nary a scrape. Quite an accomplishment considering the near-disastrous mishap with my knee back in October. I limped my way back to bake again! Not only did I manage to crank out two pies for dessert–delightfully airy pumpkin chiffon and a zippy riff on the classic lemon…

Twelve Days of (Christmas) Baking

Well, technically it’s more like twelve days of snacking, along with twelve days of guilty pleasure binge-watching Hallmark Channel Christmas movies…which is the intellectual equivalent of ingesting a mountain of empty calorie-laden holiday treats.  Hey, I’m not knocking it.  On the contrary, sometimes it’s just what you need to pull yourself out of the holiday…