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If all goes well, I’ll have a few different recipes today. So far, I just have one, and it happens to be something I mentioned a few months ago – Ginger Toffee Cookies, made with Bits o’ Brickle. Bits o’ Brickle is not one of my favorite ingredients because I hate things that stick …
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Saturday is almost over and I’m really looking forward to watching a movie. It’s been a long day. Fuzz had two friends over. One was a scheduled play date and the other girl just showed up. It’s a special thing when 3 girls play nicely together, but that didn’t happen today and 2 girls played [...]
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I needed an assortment of cookies for tomorrow’s luncheon, and since I already did lava cookies and brownies. I decided to make the third cookie non-chocolate. This recipe is based on one by Carol Walter, though I made a few changes — my favorite being the cayenne pepper. It adds more zip to the cookies, but [...]
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I came across Chai Spiced Sugar Cookies in my “Food Writers’ Favorite Cookie” book. The original title was Crispy Indian Spiced Sugar Cookies, but most people recognize these spices as chai, so I changed the title. The cookies are just as I expected, fairly thin, very crispy with a strong cardamom flavor. Next time …
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Today’s cake recipe is from the most recent issue of Bon Appetit. I chose it because I’m into butternut squash right now and because the recipe was developed by Jean Anderson, whom I admire from afar. If you don’t own it already, I highly recommend her book The American Century Cookbooks for both the recipes [...]
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This recipe was adapted from a recipe in Beat That!a book I recommend to anyone who likes reading cookbooks as much as using them. Ann Hodgman, author of Beat That! calls these molasses cookies, but , I’m going to call these “crackly top spice cookies” because they always come out thick and with a crackly [...]
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Ginger Snaps (an old Joy of Cooking recipe) Cream: 3/4 C. butter with 2 C. sugar Stir in: 2 well-beaten eggs 1/2 C. molasses 2 tsp. vinegar Sift and add: 3-3/4 C. flour 1-1/2 tsp. soda 2-3 tsp. ginger 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. cloves Preheat oven to 350. Mix ingredients until well …
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Sixteen years ago, I was somewhat fat phobic. The national recommendations were to get about 30% of your calories from fat so my target was 20%. I ate low fat/non fat everything and saved up my fat calories for cookies, chocolate and cake – things I believed needed fat to taste good. …
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