From the monthly archives:

December 2009

And we have a winner!

by Aimee on December 17, 2009

Sorry for the delay! I’ve been out all day, got home, and crashed on my bed. The excitement of being able to annouce the winner in my first giveaway bolted me out of bed though. Without further ado, I’d like to congratulate Saveur from the taste space as our winner! Heartfelt thanks go out to everyone for entering and making this a great first giveaway.

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Only 5 more hours left!

by Aimee on December 15, 2009

This is just a quick reminder that there is only 5 hours left to enter the spice giveaway. I will announce the winner some time tomorrow night. Thanks go out to everyone who has taken the time to enter and good luck to you all!

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Let’s start cinnamon off with a tart….

by Aimee on December 6, 2009

So this last week has been a whirlwind. The tradition in my house is to put up the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving. What started out as a simple holiday tradition, turned into an all-out clean-fest of the garage which had been sorely neglected in the last year. A week later, we have a *moderately* clean garage and festive house covered in lights, at least on the inside. I’ve been all over creation looking for the right *priced* extension cords to aid in trimming the outside of the house in jolly luminosity only to find after purchasing my prized extension stakes that 1. they aren’t long enough and I don’t have a three prong extension cord to extend the extender and 2. there’s no switch, something lazy me wanted. So, like Scrooge, I’m in the dark…though only on the outside.

But that’s not why you’re here! You want mouth-watering recipes that celebrate those spices I mentioned earlier. Believe it or not, I’ve been planning this little theme for a while, and I had baked this wonderful Cinnamon Milk Tart some time ago. I found this recipe in Nancy Silverton’s Pastries From The La Brea Bakery, which is a seriously good book despite it’s loathsome lack of bakers porn.

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