Monthly Archives: December 2010

New Year’s Rededications

Dec

29

— Like a zillion other people, especially bloggers, here is what I love about right now: We get to make new year’s resolutions and we get a fresh start. Here is what I hate: Every good intention (and tool to … Continue reading →

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Mystery Meal #1

Dec

29

Which one-dish meal could feature a glossily green head of cabbage and red currants? Can you guess what I made, and if you have time to comment, what would you make with these two ingredients? Click here to solve the … Continue reading →

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Blogcast-Your-Health-Goal Challenge Update

Dec

26

I hope you had as happy a week as I’ve had with the presence and presents of loved ones. This is the fifth week of my six-week goal to lose five pounds over the holiday season and so far I … Continue reading →

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A Meal (& Recipes) Fit for a Forty-Year-Old

Dec

20

Some of you have been following my Blogcast-Your-Health-Goal Challenge, so let me begin with update #4 of an eventual 6 updates (it ends on Jan 2). I gained a pound this week, which I consider a holiday miracle because although … Continue reading →

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Christmas Cookies & Jewish Grandmothers: An Essay

Dec

16

For years I’ve been wanting to make some recipes from my late grandmother’s cranberry red recipe tin. Her name was Thelma Sobo Schotland Heller, and she and my grandfather raised my dad in Philip Roth’s Newark, New Jersey. Thelma’s maternal … Continue reading →

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Recipes: Mandelbrot and Hurry Up Butter Cookies

Dec

16

I think I can resist the urge to share all of the handwritten cookie recipes passed down to me by my paternal grandmother (Thelma Sobo Schotland Heller). Honestly, I bet many of them were only slightly adapted from The Joy … Continue reading →

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Reading Recommendations for Cookie-Baking

Dec

16

These are free and online: 1) Mimi Cummins at www.christmas-cookies.com. Her site doesn’t  have swanky graphics or a social media pedigree because it was created pre-TwitterFace, but it is comprehensive. In fact, only by reading a zillion articles about Christmas … Continue reading →

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“Airplane in the Sky with Diamonds” Quilt

Dec

13

Today is the final link-up day for the “100 Quilts for Christmas” group challenge. I’ve finished this quilt, the third of the 3 quilts I had pledged to donate. On Friday morning I delivered these to Connie from DC’s Project … Continue reading →

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Update: Blogcast-Your-Health-Goal Challenge

Dec

13

If you’re following these BYHG challenge updates, you know I confess on Mondays, but I wish I could have posted this update last Wednesday. Last Wednesday I was down two pounds and so svelte that 7 strangers asked me if … Continue reading →

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Update: “100 Quilts for Christmas” challenge

Dec

06

Today is the second-link up day for the 100 Quilts for Christmas challenge. There is still time to participate because the deadline isn’t until December 15. I just finished the second of three quilts I’m donating to Project Linus as … Continue reading →

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