This article explores the author's winter week traditions, focusing on cooking and enjoying specific treats like lemon curd and rainbow cookies. It also highlights the versatility of dips as a snack option.
I have two traditions for this interstitial week: the first is to take long, wintry walks, tramping with my dog through the empty parks and sidewalks of post-holiday New York until the sun starts slanting through the trees at an ungodly hour in the early afternoon.
The second is to cook—and eat—without cessation: this week is perfect for finally making all the cookies and slow braises and odd little dishes that I’d intended to put together in the first part of the month and, thanks to December’s manic demands, just never did. Before 2019 kicks off, I’m going to make lemon curd, which I often do around this time, when I’m compelled—by some wintry deficiency of vitamins and bright colors, probably—to buy half a dozen lemons every time I leave the house, whether or not I actually need them, and need to find an outlet before they all collapse into a dusty (and oddly beautiful) pile of jade-green mold. Lemon curd is the sort of thing that you can decant into little jars and tie up with a ribbon for a fussy little gift, or bake over a shortbread base to make lemon bars, or just spoon over buttered toast with a sprinkle of salt. I’m also going to make rainbow cookies, those almond-scented confections that I buy whenever I go into an Italian bakery, and which somehow always taste not quite as good as I remember. Or, at least, I’m going to try to make them: it’s a serious project, more of a triple-layer cake than a proper cookie, perfect for keeping my hands busy for a few hours while I get lost in the latest “Murderbot Diaries” audiobook. If they fail, I’ll just throw it all away and pretend it never happened. In a week of grazing, you can’t go wrong with dip. There’s no better excuse to eat a cracker (you also can’t go wrong with crackers), and the joylessly cracker-averse can go at their dip with baby carrots and cucumber spears. Two recipes topped my own personal Year in Dips; both are beyond simpl
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