Monthly Archives: March 2010

It’s Peanut Butter Cookie Time! Peanut Butter Cookie Time!

Sometimes, I get the urge.  The urge to merge wet and dry ingredients.  The urge to stir. One of the reasons I cook so much is because I get easily bored and then I have to find something to do.  I have books to read, movies to watch, house to clean, dog to keep from [...]

If you give a Lauren a marshmallow, she’s gonna want a s’more

M is for the many yums you gave me. A is for the appetite you sate. R is for the reason I go camping. S is for the satisfying taste. H is for the holidays that wouldn’t be the same. M is for the merry times we share. A is for the awesome mix of [...]

Tell everybody that we’re having a party

It was a busy weekend.  On Friday I baked several pies for a charity bake sale.  And on Saturday, well… We needed to cut down a line of small trees by our driveway, as several were dead and falling down already.  My mom and step-dad took the wood.  As the trees were a fair-height and [...]

Pie in the Sky

There are two kinds of people in the world: pie people and cake people.  I am one of the latter.  Josh is one of the former.  They do say that opposites attract.  Anyway, I have not done much pie-making in my life (though I occasionally make things for pi).  I chalk this up to two [...]

Friday Foodie Finds: the great one

I’m going to be doing a lot of cooking this weekend, so I need to prepare myself.  I need to get into the “Cooking is Awesome!” frame of mind.  How do that I do that?  I eat some bon-bons and I watch Julie Child make an omelette:

the Great Recipe Experiment: #6-Chocolate Thumbprints

You know what you shouldn’t do when baking something, especially for the first time?  Read the line in the recipe that says to place the cookie dough on “buttered or cooking parchment- lined 12- by 15-inch baking sheets” and think, “Well, I hate to butter a pan, I’ll use baking spray instead.” This is really [...]

Build a Better Banana Bread

I like to look at magazines while standing in line at the grocery store.  I like to see what’s going on in the world, get an idea of the general gossip, see the current fashion trends, etc.  I admit it.  I’ve flipped through glossy pages, drawn in by the irresistible headlines splashed across the front, [...]

Go-Go-Gadget Goulash!

Ah, Michigan in the spring.  This week was day after day of 65 degree weather with full sun and, thanks to Daylight Savings Time, nice long lit evenings.  We grilled.  We lounged.  We ate out at cafe sidewalks.  We…did yardwork.  It was beautiful.  It was gorgeous.  It was—short lived.  Today’s forecast?  Rain and a high [...]

Eat Your Veggies

Josh sent me this and I have to share it.  Manatees need their veggies, too:

Friday Foodie Finds: the Asian edition

My favorite finds from the internet this week seem to have a predominantly Asian-centric theme. Just Bento’s archive–I don’t know what it is about bento boxes that appeal to me, but they’re fantastic.  I have one of my own; I’ll probably make a post about it soon.  I love planning out my lunches!  It’s fun [...]