Food Holidays

  • Pizza + Beer = A Classic Combination

    There are some things in this world that just go together. You don’t have to explain them — you just know. Like that certain sandwich cookie that’s been singing about ice-cold milk since childhood. (You know the one. I could say its name, but where’s the fun in that? A little obfuscation never hurt anyone.)…

  • Royal Icing

    This is a great icing for icing sugar cookies and gingerbread cut out cookies  1/3 cup Pasteurized Egg Whites 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 3-4 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted Beat the egg whites in the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment or with your hand-held mixer until the mixture looks frothy.  Add the…

  • Peanut Butter Sandwich Day

    As a younger person, I never grasped the concept of comfort food. For me, food fell into only two categories – things I liked and things I didn’t.  And the categorization was complicated – one might assume that peanut butter was in one category or another, but it wasn’t.  A piece of bread, spread thick…