Original article Doni’s English Toffee 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips (or milk chocolate or even white chocolate) 1 cup chopped nuts In a large pot, stirring continuously, cook butter and brown… Continue Reading
When I was younger, my holidays were spent baking and decorating hundreds of cookies and candies to give as gifts. Over the last few years I’ve whittled the list down to my favorites: roll-out butter cookies, molasses ginger snaps, Russian… Continue Reading
I can see the photograph in my mind’s eye as clearly as when my friend Rex showed it to me a while back. Rex said he’d snapped that picture in Burney of a teenage girl, deep in concentration as she typed on a laptop. She… Continue Reading
Don’t feel ignorant or out of it if you’re new to the concept of online forums and bulletin boards. I’m barely a few seconds ahead of you. But here we are, a wide variety of people with a wide variety of computer comfort levels. We’re in… Continue Reading
I never knew much about Igo before we built a house and moved here more than two years ago. I just knew it was way, way, way out west of Redding. Just the name – Igo – tells you it’s… Continue Reading
Original article Yukon Gold Latkes 6 large Yukon Gold potatoes 4 eggs, slightly beaten 3/4 cup matzo meal 3/4 tsp. kosher salt 1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper 1/2 cup snipped fresh chives or finely chopped scallions Cooking oil, for frying… Continue Reading
Hanukkah began Tuesday at sundown. I know because Bruce told me. He knew, not just because he’s Jewish, but because a friend called and wished Bruce happy Hanukkah. Bruce doesn’t observe any of the Jewish holidays. But he’ll gladly eat… Continue Reading
They’re not fruit flies. If I had to guess, I’d say they were a gnat creature, perhaps a smaller, grayer cousin to the fruit fly. And they do fly, in kind of a bumpy, jerky way, not purposefully, like a house fly. But boy… Continue Reading
OK, so not to point out the obvious, but Redding’s downtown isn’t like Chico’s. Nor does it remotely resemble Fourth Street in Berkeley, where some really great shops are clumped together in one place. You park and walk from shop… Continue Reading
Candace Corbin, a Record Searchlight colleague, wrote this comment on my recent post after I reported that the RS is outsourcing some duties, such as art work and writing, to cut costs: “Doni,       I’ve been reading your web-site and I love it and I think… Continue Reading
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