Gingerbread Lavender Gin Yule Log

Of all my years baking, I had yet to bake a Yule Log for Christmas. In fact, I’ve actually never tasted or tried a Yule Log before now. Intimidating…precarious…harrowing…and even astounding. I wasn’t sure if I was up for it this year. Which is why I insisted Valerie come over to help. She’s really the…

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Garganelli and Boozy Gin Cream Sauce

It seemed like there was a phase in the cooking world, and maybe it’s still happening, when vodka pasta sauce was the freakin’ bee’s knees. It was the sexiest thing you could do to pasta. But here’s the problem with vodka sauce: Good vodka is specifically engineered to be tasteless. IT HAS NO FLAVOR. So…

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