Toast of the Town: Toasted Marshmallow Syrup for #LavazzaCheer Recipe

It may not feel like it outside, but according to my calendar, winter is officially here… and that means Christmas is just around the corner.

It also means we’ve made our annual pilgrimage to Rhode Island to spend the holidays with my sister and her family, laden down with gifts for our nephews and Canadian treats for my sister. In a few days, we’ll return equally laden down with bellies full of chowder and clam cakes and grilled pizza, which seems like a reasonably good trade to me.

Before we left, I whipped through the house in a last-minute frenzy of holiday preparations. I was like a whirling dervish of domesticity, tidying and cleaning and washing and dusting and folding and putting away.

Amidst all the…