Cooking with Karma

Pudding is so retro and brings back great dessert memories from my childhood, but this version gets bonus points for extra chocolate and a tiny hit of liqueur

I may no longer be a full-fledged vegetarian, but my taste buds still love veggie-based meals. And because we try as a family to eat meatless at least three times a week, I knew Chatelaine’s spinach and feta phyllo tart (from the Holiday 100+ best recipes) was going to make the dinner list.

Now that I have a wee one, and there are plenty of holiday play dates, potlucks, and other get togethers, seems like it’s as good a time as any to make cookies almost too pretty to eat.

This recipe calls for 40 cloves of garlic. Forty. And with all the winter germs that are lurking around, I figured a good hit of garlic couldn’t hurt.

In our house, the holidays are synonymous with plenty of visiting. This year I wanted to move away from packaged snacks and make some homemade treats to put out. And nuts, especially roasted, salted, and spiced, are always crowd pleasers.