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 custard, dessert, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 1st, 2010
I used to not like coconut. That was dumb. I used to not like a lot of ingredients that are actually very good – ingredients that I’m not sure I’d actually tried. That was also dumb.
Although I think I would have liked this tart even back in my coconut-adverse days. There’s toasted [...]
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 cake, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 1st, 2010
It’s a lobster!!! Get your mind out of the gutter.
I’ve come full circle on milk chocolate. As a kid, like most of us I think, I didn’t like dark chocolate at all. Ew, too bitter! Recently, I’ve felt the opposite. Milk chocolate was too sweet – where’s the chocolate flavor?
But now [...]
Dave lucked out this year when his annual birthday pie didn’t come out quite right. Because then I made another one, and then when that one wasn’t perfect either, I made another one.
The recipe is Tartine’s, and as usual, they take a classic and kick it up a notch. Their banana cream pie [...]
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 [...]
