I would rather make gingerbread ornaments than do my Christmas shopping.
It is December 18th. Have I done my Christmas shopping? I prefer not to answer that question.
Recipes I want to try:
- Little chocolate layer cake, from the New York Times.
- Salmon en Croute from Mango and Tomato.
- Chocolate peppermint cookies, from Martha Stewart (oh my God I want to make these).
- Jaleo’s clementina old fashioned, via Metrocurean.
- Caramel corn, from Orangette, using a recipe originally from David Gaus.
And in other Internet news:
- Everyone should read this New York Times article about the holiday layer cakes of Alabama. It’s a wonderful piece on how these cakes figure into the community there.
- I love Amelia’s entry on the tulip bubble at Gradually Greener.
- The Arugula Files has a roundup of classy and trashy recipes for your holiday parties. I would like a trashy appetizer please.
- I am a sucker for a gingerbread house – so I can’t resist a gingerbread castle. Via Top Shelf.
- Brightest Young Things has a 2009 wrap up from DC’s food bloggers and foodies. Newsflash – Tim Carman hates cupcakes.
- Young and Hungry has named five dishes to its DC “hall of fame.” I will admit it here – I only voted for the things I had eaten. It was a good thing I could only vote for five.
Happy Friday!
ModernDomestic 
orchidgirl1979 said
Those cookies are so pretty. Brown/pink/green combo is so nice!
moderndomestic said
Thanks! They were my project last year, when I had a tree. It was so much fun to make them!
mary said
How do you prevent yourself from eating the ornaments?
moderndomestic said
Hah! Actually, those cookies were completely tasteless, so they were perfect for ornaments. They smelled nice, though. It’s from a really old Martha Stewart Cookbook – back when her recipes were pretty hit or miss (my mother always had a bunch of problems with her recipes in MS’s old, like, early 90s cookbooks).