Tag: cookies

Chocolate Chip and (insert nut here) Cookies

Necessity is the mother of invention, right? Well, last weekend I “invented” a new chocolate chip cookie due in part to Madison’s new found love for white chocolate and an overabundance of nuts in the pantry.  (Although some would say – including my mom – that there’s no such thing as an overabundance of nuts

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January 23, 2012 2 Comments Short URL, , In the Kitchen, Recipes

Martha Wrap (yes, you heard me correctly – Martha Wrap)

Dear Martha Stewart Living People, Last week Madison (that’s my lovely niece) and I whipped up a batch of chocolate chip cookies and I decided to conduct a very un-scientific study in my own kitchen.  Just before Christmas, I found a new and very peculiar paper product in the aisle at my local grocery store

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January 25, 2011 3 Comments Short URL, , , , In the Kitchen, Tools

Last Holiday post, I promise!

Yes, I know the holidays are over, but I received an email a few weeks ago from a friend who is always baking with her kids and posting the pictures on Facebook.  (Love it!)  Anyway, I asked her to send pictures and maybe a little story about her Christmas baking and guess what?  She sent

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January 5, 2011 4 Comments Short URL, , , , , , , , Dessert, In the Kitchen, Ingredients, Recipes, Winter

12 Days of Christmas: Christmas Sugar Cookies

I could never understand why my mom DREADED making sugar cookies.  We were just decorating them, right?  I never realized how long it took just to get the cookies to the table.  And because my mom was a former cake decorator, we couldn’t just spread frosting on the cookies and call it good.  Nooooo, we

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December 15, 2010 0 Comments Short URL, , , , , , , , Dessert, In the Kitchen, Ingredients, Inspirations, Seasonality, Winter

12 Days of Christmas: Christmas Tea

I’m a sucker for a traditional English tea.  Maybe it’s all of those classic novels I was forced, (yet now read by choice) to analyze in high school.  Maybe it’s the fact that my mom – although born in California – exhibits oddly English behavior.  (Although to be fair, she’s read the same novels I

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December 14, 2010 0 Comments Short URL, , , , , , , , Ingredients, Inspirations, Seasonality

12 Days of Christmas: Cookies

One of my favorite holiday activities is making cookies.  Not just sugar cookies (which I’ll be devoting an entire post to later this week,) but cookies that evoke my favorite flavors of the season – citrus, berry and molasses. One of the earliest memories I have of being in the kitchen, (besides pouring a bowl

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December 13, 2010 3 Comments Short URL, , , , , , , , , Dessert, In the Kitchen, Inspirations, Recipes, Seasonality, Winter