I love shortbread and these cookies are no exception. I found the original recipe, Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies, on dianasdesserts.com in 2006 and have been making them ever since, though I use macadamia nuts. Also, I like to add white chocolate, which the original recipe did not call for. Macadamia Nut Shortbread Cookies Ingredients: 1 c. […]
The Southern Pin Oak in the back yard is a gold cloud. Crepe myrtles are a great shrub. They bloom in the heat of summer when other flowers are beginning to falter. And the foliage is always beautiful in the fall. Into the woods… Mulberry leaves… Mimosa leaves… Redbud leaves… Sassafras leaves in the woods… […]
My sister came down this weekend and we worked on putting up a few trees. The Three Kings tree sits in the corner of the library. It displays a small collection of gold star ornaments and three wisemen figurines. The other tree in the library is the Nativity tree. While I was contemplating trading it […]
The almond flavored sour cream sugar cookies are a favorite at our Christmas Open House each year. I made the cookie dough Saturday (I think…), popped it in the fridge, and baked the cookies today. If you can’t tell, those are wreath cookie cutters. The day before the Christmas Open House, the cookies will be […]
Well, DH brought the tree down from the attic for the downstairs bedroom. This is what it looked like last year. Not bad, huh? The tree was old when I first painted it silver in 2008. Painting it rejuvenated it. I got a lot of compliments on how pretty that old tree was. But the […]
Recipes 6 and 7 are done and ready to put in the freezer. I made the centers for the Chocolate Creams. I’ll wait to dip them in white chocolate until after they are thawed for the Open House in December. The recipe makes about 100 – 110…depending on how large the centers are made. The […]