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“Oh, bring us figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer,” goes the carol, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas.” Don’t know the carol? Sing with the bouncing ball. If you start now, you can have a homemade figgy pudding at Christmas. WHAT’S A FIGGY PUDDING? A distant cousin of the fruit cake,…
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We love to serve red and green foods as much as possible during the holiday season. Doesn’t this goat cheese look nice and Christmasy? Slices of fresh goat cheese are topped with marinated sundried tomatoes, and you can serve them in several ways: As an hors d’oeuvre, with crostini. As an appetizer, atop a crostino…
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Liquor stores are filled with gift sets and specials for holiday gifting. Champagnes packaged with flutes, Cognacs with snifters, tasting kits (a box of smaller bottles of different expressions), “keeper” bottles with holiday designs and limited editions (Absolut Electrik, anyone?) all vie for your attention. We received scores of pitches, but here’s what caught our…
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For holidays, we always spring for special crackers. We have our year-round go-to favorites, but a special occasion deserves special crackers with the hors d’oeuvre, soup and cheese courses. Raincoast Crisps is one of the finest cracker lines made. Lesley Stowe spent years as a caterer before the demand for her crisps grew so great,…
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TOP PHOTO: Pretty pinwheel sandwiches from Hidden Valley. BOTTOM PHOTO: Cranberry-feta pinwheels in tomato tortillas. Here’s the recipe from Food.com. When we were in grade school (do people still use that term?), pinwheel sandwiches were a special party food. The bread needed to be specially baked, thin enough to roll into pinwheels. We delighted…
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