What age do you have to be before birthdays aren’t a big deal? Sure, you don’t have the year long countdown you had when you were 7, but everyone hopes for a little pampering or kind well wishes. The part I think we struggle with is getting a year older. I am [...]
Continue reading...2. June 2009
Not your average pie.
Continue reading...22. April 2009
Oatmeal Cookies are the Rodney Dangerfield of the cookie community. They just don't get no respect, ya know? They have a reputation as being bland, slightly boring attempts to pass off a healthy breakfast grain as a dessert. But just try this recipe.
Continue reading...6. March 2009
It makes great use of fond. Fond, as many of you know, is French for "that really tasty stuff that's stuck to the bottom of your pan, you uncivilized American!"
Continue reading...11. February 2009
Want to impress your Valentine but don't know the difference between a water bath and a bubble bath? Here ya go.
Continue reading...30. January 2009
Can't wait til those cookies are here? If you're jonesing for a bite of coconutty goodness, today is your lucky day.
Continue reading...17. December 2008
These aren't exactly fancy, schmancy but sooo much better than those famous peppermint patties that make you feel like you're on a snow covered ski slope.
Continue reading...15. December 2008
Today is your lucky day, chickens, because I have searched for years for the perfect rolled sugar cookie recipe, the one that's thick and soft but doesn't puff up and has a buttery taste that's not too sweet and that perfect frosting that stays glazed and hardens beautifully like the ones that magazines taunt you with every Christmas.
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9. June 2009
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