Another Stab at a Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe My writing of this post tonight was interrupted by Alex, my eldest, waking up with a nightmare (well we don’t really know they are nightmares, but our pediatrician told us this is frequently the problem when toddlers wake up crying for no apparent reason). Anyway when I…
Archives for January 2008
The Flexitarian Quest Continues (A Middle Eastern Riff on Bittman’s Bean Burgers)
Remember that New Year’s resolution I told you all about? The one where we would become more flexitarian in our approach to food, eating more vegetarian meals, and to that end I was going to explore more “American” vegetarian meals? Well I don’t mind telling you all that things are proceeding a little creakily. Not…
Slow Cooked Chicken & The Amazing Aroma of Vanilla
Slow Cooked Convenience Dinner I was of 2 minds about whether to post about this past Friday night’s dinner. After all, a lot of you are experienced cooks and this is isn’t exactly what I would call a recipe or anything particularly difficult. However, then I figured everyone needs easy, weekday meals (you know, for…
A No Kill Shelter Found Room For Bony!
I said our poor rescue dog derailed dinner in a previous post—well she kind of derailed my blog a bit this week as well. In the midst of making dinner for Friday evening I found out the no kill shelter could take her and had to leave during dinner. I did not want to lose…
Cream Cheese Swirled Brownies
These Cream Cheese Brownies are the best I’ve tried and the only recipe I use. These photos were updated as of October 2015, and in the intervening years the recipe has been used for cakewalks, birthdays and just to make us happy. Sammy especially adores them! Affiliate links have been used to link to items…
If you chip your pet, please register it!
Just a quick update on the dog in our garage–I will be posting about some really yummy brownies come tomorrow. I still need to type up the recipe. But in case any of you were wondering… First of all, the dog catcher still has not called me back-if any of you city people were wondering…
The Dog that Derailed Dinner (Curry Potpie; New Year’s Resolutions; Chocolate Chip Cookie Quest)
So this post was originally supposed to be about New Year’s resolutions.I guess the dog derailed that too. A criminally skinny German Shepherd showed up on my doorstep today while I was making dinner. Very friendly, desperate for human company, starving (I fed her) and really, really skinny.Leather collar but no tag (this dog must…
Dinner’s a bust but lunch is a success out of the pantry
“Wow, you don’t often have complete failures. I can’t remember the last time we threw the whole dinner out before ever eating it.” Thanks, Honey. Hey he meant it well—I don’t often have complete failures, so it was mostly a compliment. But yeah tonight’s dinner was a total bust. I am still not sure what…
OMG Good Peanut Butter Brownies
One of the food oriented websites I like best–and the only board I contribute to–is the Cooking Light bulletin board (CLBB). My sister, Josie, apparently perusing The Savory Notebook blog (which is written by a CLBB member) came across this recipe, found where it was discussed on the CLBB (here), bumped it back in line,…