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Fun and fancy’s not free: Cardamom and currant snickerdoodles

April 23, 2013 By Katrina

Fun and fancy’s not free: Cardamom and currant snickerdoodles

The other day Jared sent me a New York Times article about Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook, It’s All Good. The title of the article is “Healthy Eating on Just $300 a Day,” and talks about how, because of oft exotic dishes and a call to use the best of the best ingredients at every turn,…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, cardamom, cardamom and currant snickerdoodles, Christmas cards, cookies, currants, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, snickerdoodles

Admiration and emails — and lemon cream cheese cookies

April 11, 2013 By Katrina

Admiration and emails — and lemon cream cheese cookies

This cookie is based on a recipe that’s been saved on my computer for more than a year. It’s from Merrill Stubbs at Food52, and I remember saving it simply because I think Merrill is the cat’s pajamas. If she says it’s a hit, I believe her. Allow me to explain. For the first 16…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, cookies, cream cheese, cream cheese cookies, dessert, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, lemon, lemon cookies, lemon cream cheese cookies, Merrill Stubbs

Life without a microwave: Brown butter Rice Krispies treats

February 27, 2013 By Katrina

Life without a microwave: Brown butter Rice Krispies treats

We have no microwave in our home, and we haven’t since we moved here a year and a half ago. As apartment dwellers, we’ve spent the past five-plus years relying on the appliances our rentals provide, and when we moved here, there was no microwave. Gallant folks that we are, we decided to trudge on…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven, Snacks Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, dessert, easy recipes, Essential New York Times Cookbook, food, no microwave, recipes, rice krispie treats, Rice Krispies treats, rice krispy treats

Poetry and cookies: Sweet citrus shortbread

February 13, 2013 By Katrina

Poetry and cookies: Sweet citrus shortbread

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned on more than one occasion, all of my best ideas, particularly the writing-related ones, seem to come while I’m taking a shower. Basically, a lovely line emerges from the steam, then bounces around for a while, rephrased and repeated until it’s written to memory. It’s a Darwinian twist on the…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, citrus, cookies, dessert, easy recipes, food, fresh from the oven, orange, shortbread, sweet citrus shortbread, sweets, Valentine's Day

Minding our Ps and Qs: Ricotta Lemon Bars

February 5, 2013 By Katrina

Minding our Ps and Qs: Ricotta Lemon Bars

Nothing makes you reevaluate your words, actions and unintentional mannerisms quite like spending your days with a 2-foot-tall mimic. Toddlers come with an innate talent for reflecting the good, not-so-good and do-I-really-do-that kinds of qualities in the people around them, and our Beany girl has taken to this age-required aptitude with zeal. Our regular conversations…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: Baby bliss, baking, dessert, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, lemon, lemon bars, parenting, recipes, ricotta, ricotta lemon bars, sweets

The house where Gretel lives: Peanut butter marshmallow sandwich cookies

January 25, 2013 By Katrina

The house where Gretel lives: Peanut butter marshmallow sandwich cookies

The home that I grew up in, though happy and loving and magical beyond measure, was not one to be overrun by sweets. That’s not to say that we didn’t have our fair share of sugar on occasion — there were holidays, the intermittent Oreos and my mom’s famous mile-high snickerdoodles — but the typical…

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Fit for Santa’s team: Rudolph loves cookies

December 19, 2012 By Katrina

Fit for Santa’s team: Rudolph loves cookies

With Christmas only days away, we’re squeezing in every last ounce of holiday fun, food and crafty goodness that we can before Santa hits the slopes and heads to town (presuming that his sled does a bit of skiing action before taking to the air). And what better way to welcome him to our humble…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven, Most Popular Tagged With: Christmas, cookies, dessert, easy recipes, food, fresh from the oven, ginger spice cookies, holiday cookies, holiday recipes, reindeer cookies, Rudolph cookies

Now, that’s neighborly: Simple homemade peppermint bark

December 13, 2012 By Katrina

Now, that’s neighborly: Simple homemade peppermint bark

There are about five gazillion things that I love about Christmas, but one that I didn’t realize how much I loved until I moved away from home was the neighborhood gift exchange that happens annually on my parents’ street. I know similar traditions pop up in neighborhoods everywhere, but I like to think that our…

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It’s time to meet the blondies

November 30, 2012 By Katrina

It’s time to meet the blondies

The season of sugar is upon us, and though I fully intend to stay waist deep in an assortment of tried and true cookie recipes from now until the New Year (I promise I will share!), I’m always game for a bit of newness as far as flour and sugar and butter are concerned. You’d…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, blondies, brownies, chocolate, cookies, dessert, food, Foster's Market, fresh from the oven, holiday recipes

Pumpkin picking and the punkin’ snaps reboot

October 24, 2012 By Katrina

Pumpkin picking and the punkin’ snaps reboot

For the second year in a row, Jared and I have been less than successful in taking advantage of the apple utopia that is North Carolina in the fall. I suppose we have an excuse for missing out on the fun last year. We were new to the area, and my pleasantly plural physique tired…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven, Life Tagged With: baking, cookies, dessert, fall activities, food, fresh from the oven, gingersnaps, pumpkin, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin gingersnaps, pumpkin patch, pumpkin recipes, punkin' snaps

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