holiday cookie favorites

Italian Christmas Cookies

No.  The stockings are not hung by the chimney with care.  Nor is my tree decorated.  And the presents remain unwrapped.  But I’m having fun baking holiday cookies!  And this is probably my all-time favorite Christmas cookie, as it was one of two recipes that my mom would make to kick-off the holiday season.  The […]

Grandma’s Raspberry Jam Sticks

I’m heading to Rhode Island tomorrow to do some clamming and have a little fun in the sun.  Actually, I will not do any clamming at all.  I’ll sit on a little strip of “beach” with my sister-in-law and watch as our husbands disappear into the horizon, rake and net in hand, to search with […]