dennis-muoio's Blog

Each each, Denielle takes the week of Thanksgiving and spends it with us. Lynder comes with her and if the work schedule allows, Tumeca comes too.  This year, Tumeca coldn't get the time off.

Each year, we spend some of the time making Christmas cookies for the girls to take back to New York. They share them with friends and co-workers. I think Tumeca shars them with her aunts too.

Covid 19 had its influence on cookies this year....a minor hiccup compared to the real tragedy.

None of the nieces, nephews or family came ove to bake.

Joan and I started on Dec12 and finished up by the 14th. The goal was to mail off cookies to friends and relatives by the 16th.

Joan made: Chocolate chips, Sugar cookie cut-outs, Linzer tarts, Chocolate and Vanilla checkboard sugar cookies(a recipe from Elaine Welland's gift cookbook) and Multi-colored pinwheels.

Once, when on a strict no carb diet, I developed this recipe because I like my pasta.

1 cup chickpea flour

1 egg

1 Tablesppoon olive oil

I’ve doubled this recipe, but not much more than that . It’s not a very forgiving dough and can be difficult to roll and cut.

It has a nutty, not very pleasant flavor when eaten raw. Once cooked though, you can barely tell the difference between it and regular semolina flour dough. It’s really good!

1 recipe of Chocolate Chips

Double recipe of Sugar Cookie Cut-outs

1 recipe of Kolochy

1/2 recipe of Basic Dough for fig and ricotta filled cookies

1 recipe Butter Balls

1 recipe Cornstarch

1/2 recipe of Kipful dough

1 recipe of Neopolitans

We gave:

1 dish to Margot’s pre-school class

1 for dessert at out house

1 more for dessert at our house with Joan’s mom

1 dish to Jeneve to give to Carolyn

1 dish for dinner with Marilyn