By food contributor Brittany Layers of brownie, gingerbread pudding, crushed peppermint chocolate and creamy whipped cream, it’s Christmas in a cup! These individual trifles allow you have fun and be creative for your next Christmas dessert. You can even have a trifle bar at your Christmas party, allowing guests to stack and build their own dessert […]
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12.13.13
Clove Clementines Gift
This is a really simple idea for a hostess or neighbor gift. Homemade wassil is a traditional holiday drink that we loved growing up. It’s warmed juices (apple, orange, and lemon) combined with holiday spices like cloves, cinnamon and allspice. It makes the house smell amazing too. These little clove clementines would be perfect to […]
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12.9.13
Peppermint Chocolate Crackles
By food contributor Brittany I’m all about giving away plates of goodies to neighbors each Christmas (I’m also all about receiving and eating them too 🙂 and this is a great classic cookie to add contrast to the traditional iced sugar cookie. I love peppermint and chocolate together so this is at the top of my […]
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12.3.13
Sites and Bites
Writing by Sites and Bites contributor Isabelle Ambler. Photography by Tracy Benjamin Today Sites and Bites is back on the West Coast! We’ve been spending a lot of time in the Mission recently, so to to mix it up we headed over to North Beach. North Beach is San Francisco’s Little Italy and home to […]