Cuisine Eric

It's Christmas time and that means gingersnap cookies to me! Use whatever spices you love in these crispy cookies with a chewy center. Merry Christmas. Dry ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp dried ground cinnamon 1/8 tsp allspice 1/8 tsp ground dried cardamom (optional) 1/8 tsp ground dried coriander (optional) 1/4 tsp salt Wet ingredients Step 1: 6 Tbsp room-temperature softened butter 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup dark brown sugar Step 2: 2 tsp fresh ginger, minced finely using a microplane 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 Tbsp un-sulphured molasses Topping: 1/4 cup Turbinado granular sugar, or brown sugar, or whatever you have Preheat oven to 350F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Whisk (or sift) dry ingredients together in a separate bowl. Using an electric mixer, whip together step 1 of the wet ingredients in their own separate bowl.   Add ingredients for step 2 and whip together to a glossy consistency. Now add half the wet ingredients into t...

Here is a classic home made soup from Italy.  It is based on the home made bone broth we used to make turkey soup in November 2024 in this blog. But it is modified to add meatballs and more veggies.  It is hearty and delicious and is a complete meal in itself.  It takes some cooking for sure, but is well worth the effort, and feeds a bunch. Carcass, trimmings and bones from 1 roasted turkey or 2 roasted chickens 4 carrots, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces 4 stalks celery, cut into 2-inch pieces 2 onions, quartered 2 quarts water 2 bay leaves 1-2 small onions, diced 2 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, diced about 1/2-inch 1 green zucchini, coarsely diced 1 yellow summer squash, coarsely diced About 1-1/2 lb meatballs (your favorite, I used frozen turkey meatballs) Break up carcass and bones onto their smaller pieces and fit into a very large stock pot.   Add a dash of olive oil (or better yet, leftover Schmaltz - poultry fat) and brown the bones.   Cook for a good 10-...