Brownies are tricky. Amidst all my baking escapades during the past few years, I haven’t been able to perfect a homemade brownie. It’s certainly possible that I’m doing something wrong: mixing things too much, not enough or not in the right order. But for the most part, I blame the box. Boxed brownies that is….
Project NYT: Julia et Katrina?
La, la, la laaaaaa! Behold Amanda Hesser’s New York Times Essential Cookbook, the monster of a cookbook I’ve been eyeing for the past few months, brought to Jared and me this Christmas from the man in red. Woo hoo! I am beyond excited to crack it open and get started. And with 932 pages of…
Ode to a cookie: Recipe for a masterpiece
I love cookies (cue Cookie Monster: Om, nom, nom). Mixing, rolling, cutting, baking: I love every step of the process. Oh yes, and the eating. That’s good, too. During the past year especially, I’ve found that baking, particularly baking cookies, works wonders for my stress level (I realized while writing this that my go-to stress…
Waffles: I like ’em pipying hoot from the gleede.
With Christmas less than a week away (which means mountains of baked goods, candy and holiday grub are on the very close horizon), it would probably behoove us to start preparing our tummies for the impending feast. Then again, muscles tend to work better with frequent use, so perhaps the tummy works the same way….
Forget long distance; I’m switching to spritz.
Remember a few days ago when I was writing to Martha with my list of all the kitchen-y, crafty gadgets that she insisted I get tout de suite? Well my Grandma Smith, who holds the cornucopia of cooking/baking gadgetry within the confines of her kitchen, heard of my yen for a cookie press and immediately…
No time like snow time. No cocoa like hot cocoa.
Well, winter has officially arrived in the great state of Missouri. With a few sparkly inches of snow outside and a morning temperature of 13 degrees, it’s cozy-up-by-the-fire kind of weather (or cozy-up-by-the-Christmas-tree for we apartment dwellers with no fireplace to speak of). A quick scroll through my Facebook news feed Sunday morning indicated that…
No bake? No problem.
Do you remember the first time you ate a no-bake cookie? When I was little, my mom could whip up oatmeal raisin, chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles so fluffy you’d think they were pillows (really, my friends were always mega impressed when I pulled them out of my lunchbox), but no-bake cookies were never her…
Cookiepalooza 2010
Three years ago, Jared and I started a holiday tradition with our friends Jon and Rebekah that’s wreaked happy holiday havoc on our tiny smidge of a kitchen. For this now-annual Christmastime event, we go all-out cookie-baking crazy, which means we spend an entire evening (and by evening I mean a solid four-hour chunk at…
Eat your vegetables
When I was a freshman in college, one of the dining halls (Eva J’s — woot, woot!) periodically served up one of my all-time favorite vegetables, though every time I slid my tray to this veggie-filled hot spot with balls of greeny goodness overflowing from the warming dishes, I got the distinct impression that I…
We might be giants
When I was a little girl, no food seemed quite as fancy as tiny hors d’oeuvres served on big platters. The is probably largely because we only did hors d’oeuvres for special occasions (i.e. Christmas and New Year’s Eve), so the presence of tiny food meant happy holidays, late nights, pretty clothes and sparkling cider….
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