Posted in cookies, dessert, favorites, nuts, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 9th, 2010
I don’t how I managed to go this long without complaining about the grocery store situation in my new little town. There are three grocery stores here – a Walmart, a food thrift store, and a regular store. I know some Walmarts have a good selection, but this one certainly does not. [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, recipe comparisons, winter/holidays on Mar 4th, 2010
You know those people who decorate sugar cookies so beautifully it’s hard to believe those works are art are edible? Yeah, I am not one of them. I haven’t made sugar cookies in months, and you know why? It’s a pain in the butt, and the results of my decorating are never [...]
Posted in citrus, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains on Feb 23rd, 2010
The problem with wheat germ cookies is that my mind focuses on the wheat germ part instead of the cookie part. So then these are healthy and therefore perfectly acceptable to eat with my tea – before breakfast. Wheat germ, people! Whole grains! Cookie schmookie.
Plus – they’re so good! No [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 16th, 2010
Before I joined Tuesdays with Dorie, I baked chocolate chip cookies a couple times a month. They were my standard weeknight dessert; I’d eat dinner early and then by the time I was ready to drink my evening tea, I was hungry for a dessert, and a cookie or two was just the right [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 9th, 2010
You can laugh, based on years on my often-but-not-always-positive critiques of Dorie’s recipes, but I actually think I’m pretty open-minded about desserts. For example, I definitely already have a favorite brownie recipe. It’s evenly balanced between cakey and fudgy, which is exactly how I like my brownies. When one report after another [...]
Posted in candy, chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 19th, 2010
The worst part of not loving the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe for the week is having to tell everyone about it. Not only do I feel like a Negative Nellie, but the flood of “sorry you didn’t like it!” comments starts, and, honestly, it isn’t such a big deal. There are many worse [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 13th, 2010
Michael Pollan made a suggestion that I thought was great: Eat all the fried food you want, as long as you fry it yourself. His hypothesis is that most people wouldn’t want to bother with the hassle more than once in a great while, so fried food wouldn’t be the norm in anyone’s diet.
The [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, gluten free, healthy, nuts, tuesdays with dorie on Dec 15th, 2009
Hey, have you noticed that I haven’t whined about gaining weight in a while? It turns out that I figured out a system that actually works to avoid weight gain. You’ll never believe this, but it involves getting regular exercise and eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, freezer friendly, french, tuesdays with dorie on Dec 8th, 2009
I was all excited about these cookies after I mixed up the dough, which tasted amazing. I was looking forward to how pretty they’d look once they were baked, tall and flat with glittery sugar around their edges.
Then I saw that there was some flavor variations that I could have played with. Because what’s [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, favorites, freezer friendly, winter/holidays on Nov 26th, 2009
It’s Thanksgiving! And that means it’s officially Christmastime!
Right?
Oh, it means something about giving thanks? Hmm. That’s cool too.
Still, once the feast is over, it’s all about Christmas. I used to try to hold off thinking about, hearing, and seeing anything Christmas-related until Thanksgiving, but you can imagine how successful that strategy [...]
