January 2009

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins with Agave Nectar

Today’s recipe is adapted from the recipe site I link to earlier — the one with all the agave nectar recipes. So many of the recipes sounded good, but the one that caught my eye was a muffin made with agave nectar and ricotta. Along with adding a little extra protein and calcium, …

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Published on January 22, 2009
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Catching Up

by Anna on January 22, 2009 · 18 comments

Hopefully I’ll have a recipe today — probably something from the agave nectar page mentioned earlier. So far, all I baked was a batch of Milk’s Chocolate Cookies (full batch) and Peanut Butter Cookies for Teacher Appreciation. I spent the rest of the morning running errands and checking out sales at Macy’s. If you’re …

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Published on January 22, 2009
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broken cookie

Today’s cookies are from the LA Times Culinary SOS, a section that devotes itself to helping readers track down recipes from restaurants. In this case, a reader named Meaghan wrote SOS asking them to obtain the recipe for chocolate cookies made by Milk. SOS told her to get her napkin ready because they’d …

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Published on January 21, 2009
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Big Collection of Recipes With Agave

by Anna on January 21, 2009 · 21 comments

Great Resource!

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Published on January 21, 2009
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Cannoli

by Anna on January 20, 2009 · 20 comments

Cannoli

In the previous post I mentioned my step-dad, Sal. Along with wishing he were alive to watch the inauguration, I wish he were here to help us eat some cannoli. Sal was Sicilian American and knew a thing or two about the pastry. I sometimes take for granted how lucky I was to have him [...]

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Published on January 20, 2009
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Recipes from Inaugural Luncheon

by Anna on January 20, 2009 · 4 comments

What, no cannoli?. Oh, I get it. It’s food from the USA.

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Published on January 20, 2009
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Just So You Know…

by Anna on January 20, 2009 · 16 comments

Today is National Buttercrunch Day. Good grief. UPDATE:  And it’s also National Cheese Lover’s Day! Is any day NOT a food holiday? Good thing we have an actual historic event to observe. Still, I feel the need to incorporate cheese, buttercrunch and patriotism into one cookie. Can it be done?  

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Published on January 20, 2009
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Oatmeal Streusel Cookies

Happy Martin Luther King Day! I hope everyone has taken some time to think about him. Fuzz and I have, and we’ve had some interesting discussions as well. We even thought about making a dinner in his honor, but can’t agree on what. So for now, here’s a cookie baked in …

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Published on January 19, 2009