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  • A Gnome’s Holiday Table

      Being nocturnal, gnome’s always come at night leaving for us beautiful round tins filled with one-ders, wishing cookies, and lokum. As we meet nightly for stories, games, and playing music, we most definitely work up an appetite and these… Continue reading

  • Mormor’s Chocolate Cake Cookies

    Every year a well stuffed box, wrapped in brown paper, would arrive at our home from Gotland Sweden,just days before Christmas. In it were lovely knitted items and my grandmother's (mormor) famous chocolate cake cookies. Mom would immediately grab the… Continue reading

  • Merry Making Business

    When all is dark it's time to make some magic. May you have a weekend of togetherness and creativity. See you Monday. Continue reading

  • Feast from the Middle Sea

    Before we were even married my sweet man from Lebanon had to endure the traditional meal of Thanksgiving. I say endure because I had never cooked a Thanksgiving meal in my life. We were living in Switzerland and I had… Continue reading

  • How to Lasso a pumpkin

    The lead story on the evening news was" No canned pumpkin on store shelves in Knoxville". So this is where I left you yesterday ……..Looking For Pumpkins,real ones. We conquered and divided, that girlfriend Ruth and I. She was going… Continue reading

  • An Apple and a Strudel and Away we go

    It is so much cooler today. It's raining and as I was walking this morning I noticed that there are many apples on the trees. This reflection gave rise to a "flashback" moment, not unlike "grasshopper" in the TV series… Continue reading

  • Project Spectrum Skorpa

    The color of the season is yellow. I love yellow. For starters I needed to stay with tradition and make saffrans skorpa. What is this you ask ? From the lovely island of Gotland, in Sweden, there is someone making this… Continue reading