“When cooking from a community cookbook, you’re not preparing a stranger’s 🍍 salad; you’re making your cousin’s favorite 🍍 salad or the 🍍 salad of your neighbor down the street. These cookbooks convey a sense of trust and intimacy, offering a personal connection to the food being shared.”

My one true love, the Pophams mince pie, is finally back. Boozy, gingery mincemeat and cream in a fold of laminated pastry, this is untraditional but oh so excellent. Every year I eat far too many and still feel I haven't had enough.

A reminder of some of the shortbread recipes where you can use your Christmas spiced butter.
Mince pie shortbread
Butterscotch shortbread
Indian Nankaties
Shortbread variations
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Would you like some chestnut cupcakes? 🌰
They came out so fluffy 😍

I am currently making a chocolate frosting to finish them.

#food 🍽️🍜🧁

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Definite vibe shift on the food feed since the influx. Lots of folks with like professional looking food photography trying to promote their blogs/newsletters. I don't hate it, but I'll admit: I'm mostly here for regular old phone photos of a plate you're about to eat, of food you made at home.

Some past bakes. I cook too. #baking # cake #frosting # icing # buttercream #juliachild #cookbook

Anyone up for a good old fashioned cookbook book club? Some varied selections from my shelf.