Bacon is baked with brown sugar and pepper to create the most amazingly delicious, perfectly crisp bacon with a sweet and slightly spicy candy-like coating.
This easy recipe for pecan sticky buns is just like the one grandma used to make. It combines frozen rolls, butterscotch pudding, butter, and brown sugar to make the most amazingly delicious sticky caramel coating for this pull apart bread. Prep in the evening and bake it in the morning for an easy Christmas breakfast.
December seems to get busier every year! And what a time for my computer to need repair work, like it did yesterday. (Noooo! I have photos to edit, blog posts to write!) Happily, it didn't turn out to be the CPU fan or video card, like we initially thought. The computer just needed a really good cleaning out. My husband said it looked like an archaeological dig in there. Happily, Staples is ovvering their basic computer service for free right now (usually $69), so my computer got fixed for free! Yay! And the same day, too. Whew. Back in service.
I'm an expert at baking regular gingerbread houses, but sometimes I need gluten free gingerbread. So I adapted our amazing standard gingerbread house recipe to make this delicious, crisp, gluten free gingerbread house recipe.
Incredibly simple Christmas packaging or gift wrapping idea with a brown paper lunch bag, a doily, and a candy cane. Ideal for giving neighbors and teachers those homemade cookies at Christmastime.
We've probably all seen the beautiful snowflake shaped homemade marshmallows from Martha Stewart. I've made homemade marshmallows before, and they're fun to make and delicious. But sometimes you just don't have that kind of time (or perhaps a stand mixer, which makes making marshmallows a lot easier).
There are plenty of lovely artificial wreaths that can be bought, but I really love hanging a Christmas wreath made with real fresh evergreens on our door. In past years, I've bought them at the store when I've run across them. But this year I'm making my own.
At the heart of the concept for the Christmas Cottage playhouse renovation was a real Christmas tree. That meant that I'd need a tree skirt, and I immediately envisioned a beautiful quilted tree skirt in some sort of fabric that would work with my shabby chic theme. Only problem? I don't quilt. At all. My friend (an exceptional quilter) tried to teach me once, but it really didn't work out. My sewing skills just aren't precise enough to handle quilting.
