I was very excited to learn about the Food Blogger Cookie Swap this year. I love getting mail from random strangers, I love cookies and I love the food blogging community so everything about it appealed to me, including the opportunity to donate to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. I decided to make a recipe I’ve had […]
This is one of those weeks that just calls for tiny m&m cookies. I don’t know what it was. Maybe it’s excitement from my Skillshare class starting this week. Maybe it’s end-of-the-year stress. Maybe it was half a bag of tiny M&Ms sitting leftover on my counter and a half bottle of Amaretto out on […]
As I’ve probably mentioned before, I tend to bake when I get restless. Judging from most of my blog entries, I get restless a lot. But there’s also the fact that I like to have a little something sweet in the evenings and instead of opting for a couple cookies made by some questionable elven […]
Cookies Anonymous 12 Step Program: Admit that you are powerless in the face of your sweet tooth. Come to believe that a Cookie can restore (what’s left of) your sanity. Make a decision to turn your life over to Cookie. Make a fearless gastronomical inventory of your stomach. Admit to Cookie that you have wronged […]
We report, you decide. So I know I keep saying that I hate to bake, and yet I keep baking things. I really don’t like baking. But I really do like baked goods. And last night, I was bored. Boredom + want dessert = make cookies. Cookies are my favorite baked good of all time. […]
I just wanted to post pictures of cookies. Similar to the ones here, only with dark brown sugar, half cake flour/half regular flour, 1.5 tbsp sugar, 1/2 cup flaked coconut, 1 cup oatmeal and 10oz milk chocolate chips. The cinnamon is a must; it adds such a great undertone to the oatmeal and chocolate.
I told Josh that I would make him cookies tonight and I did—I made cookies based on my chocolate chip granola bar recipe. They have everything the bars do–oatmeal, chocolate chips, cinnamon, coconut and walnuts (okay, not everything; there’s no honey or oil). Recipe Follows:
I mentioned in the last post that I was excited about three things this week. One of those is tonight’s Live Organize Your Kitchen with Evernote hangout with fellow Ambassador and food blogger, Brandie Kajino. The other was cookie swaps. Specifically, the annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. I do enjoy participating in it every […]
I found red sweet corn at Whole Foods last week. Not Indian corn. Not the band Korn painted all up in red. Red sweet corn. I’d never even seen it in a store before, let alone tried it. So I bought some, because what do you do when confronted with something new and mysterious? You […]
Take a look at some of my favorite food finds from this week’s social media.
Last weekend, a terrible thought hit me. “Summer is practically over,” I thought. “It might as well be September.” But that’s crazy. Summer is far from over. Summer is merely at its peak. Summer tastes sweet, juicy and goes well with cream soda. You know how I know this? Because summer is currently on sale […]
You know what I like about these bars? Everything. They were easy to make, very fast, tasty, they made the house smell delicious and they are a perfect fall treat for noshing on with a good sized mug of hot cocoa and whipped cream. They came about because I was sitting home alone, bored, getting […]
Something awesome transpired here Saturday night. Josh and I hosted the inaugural Melties, a semi-formal grilled cheese dinner party. Let me say that part again. A semi formal grilled cheese dinner party. You know, as many times as I say it, it never sounds less awesome. All around, it’s probably one of my better ideas. […]
I can hear the battle raging on inside of Cookie Monster’s head already: “It look like a cookie. But it not a cookie. But it have chocolate chip like cookie. But it scone. But it round like cookie. How it not cookie? Cookie Monster like cookies. Cookie Monster not Scone Monster. To eat or not […]
It’s that time of year again. Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras. Carnivale. For some people, “Paczki Day.” I, for one, enjoy Mardi Gras. Who doesn’t like shiny beads and socially accepted overindulgence? Monks. But we just won’t tell them about it. Anyway, I enjoy the festivities. There is, however, one thing that has always somewhat baffled […]
I like Valentine’s Day. I know it’s a somewhat controversial holiday (which ones aren’t, these days?) but I personally appreciate it, for about the same base reason that I like Halloween: you just can’t go wrong with a holiday where a major focus is candy. The second best part of V-Day is the silly cards […]
It was ungodly cold in Michigan this weekend. A high of 14 yesterday. Fourteen. No, I didn’t really mean to type 41. The 1 and the 4 were in the correct locations. 14 degrees. Fahrenheit. I don’t know about you, but in my opinion, 14 is not a temperature. It’s an awkward time in adolescence, […]
I’ll say that one more time: double chocolate chip almond cookie pie. Cookie pie. Cookie pie. Cookie pie. This is a beautiful dessert, in so many ways. First of all, it contains some of the most important ingredients known to man: chocolate, double chocolate, almonds, butter, pie crust. All it’s missing is pork…and you could […]
I wasn’t doing a lot of baking for a bit there recently and in the meantime, my Calder delivery kept coming. By last Friday, I had amassed a small cholesterol-y fortune to the tune of about 4.5 pounds of butter in my pantry. I thought to myself, I should probably whittle that down before it […]
It’s official, folks. Halloween has come and gone. There’s frost on the ground overnight. Today was a high of 51F. Starbucks has switched to its Christmas cups. Yep. It’s begun. The Wintering. And with the Wintering comes the Colding, the Freezing and the inevitable Wanting to Hibernate. But never fear, Random Internet Person. All is […]