 This afternoon Todd and I drove back to the hill country and picked Fuzz up from Girl Scout camp. It was pouring rain. The campers were huddled under a porch while the soaking wet counselors very efficiently checked IDs and loaded each girl and her luggage into a car. On the ride home Fuzz told [...]  Crinkle cookies are pretty, but don’t always live up to my taste expectations. They’re either too sweet, not flavorful enough or lack chocolate. I’d pretty much given up on them until this weekend when Louise turned me on to an old recipe from Gourmet – a crinkle cookie with a kick of Sambuca. I’ve [...]  So Todd was a bit miffed when I confessed to using his Blanton’s Bourbon in these cookies, but they’re for an Austin food blogger cookie swap and rest assured, that group knows good whiskey. Or that’s what I told my husband. Only the best for the food bloggers. Use whatever type of whiskey you [...]  Anise is an ancient spice used throughout the world as a medicine, flavoring, aphrodisiac and even in magic. Drinking anise infused tea was said to increase psychic ability and keeping seeds in your pocket would ward off the evil eye. But mostly, anise attracts. Hunters use it to lure deer, 16th century mice ate it, [...]  Growing up in San Antonio, I ate my share of Mexican cookies. My favorites were the powdered sugar coated polverones — Mexican sugar cookies that dissolved in your mouth like dust (polvo). Today’s cookies were a little different than the ones I remember. They weren’t quite as crumbly, yet had a light [...] |
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