Guys I am so excited! I have the BEST new toy! The perfect set up for any technologically savvy cook/baker who is obsessed with working in the kitchen to her favorite tunes. HUGE thanks to my wonderful hubby and parents, who also chipped in as an early birthday present.
Salted Vanilla Oatmeal Cookies/Review of Pure Vanilla
I think by now regular readers of this blog know that I prefer thick, crispy on the outside but chewy on the inside cookies. So it should come as no surprise that these cookies were a huge hit by virtue of their texture alone. That their flavor is absolutely amazing just makes them that much…
Salted Browned Butter Honey and Oat Cookies
When I was growing up, my grandparents lived within easy driving distance of my home. My maternal grandpa and grandma, whom I have written about here before, lived 45 minutes away in the country. My dad’s parents lived around the outer belt in a different suburb of Columbus. I was very close to both of my grandmothers,…
No Bake Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Bars
Do you ever have moments where something–a memory, a smell, a sensation, etc.–triggers a feeling and all of a sudden you can perfectly imagine being somewhere other than where you are? Maybe a smell that reminds you of your grandma’s house or the sensation of snapping beans that takes you back to a summer day…
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies from #CookiesForKidsCancer: Best Bake Sale Cookbook
Last month I wrote about Cookies for Kids’ Cancer and the excellent work that they do. While doing the research for that post, I discovered they had a cookbook, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer: Best Bake Sale Cookbook. It doesn’t take much to convince me to buy a cookie cookbook, and seeing as this one was…
“Bakery Classic” Chocolate Chip Cookies: A Review of Milk & Cookies
This is an ambivalent review of a cookbook. Which is kind of weird, but I just want to be clear from the start that I both like and am frustrated by Tina Casaceli’s Milk & Cookies: 89 Heirloom Recipes from New York’s Milk & Cookies Bakery (which, by the way, I chose and paid for–no…
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Butterfly Cake
The next few posts are full of delicious food with lousy photos. For whatever reasons, lately it feels like it’s all I can do to grab a few very much not staged shots before we dig in. And not staged means you can see computers, pepper grinders, random cookbooks, phones, keyboards, hands, you name it…
Coconut and Dried Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
Oatmeal raisin cookies have never done much for me. They are my mom’s favorite cookie, so I ate them plenty growing up, but I never lowed the raisins and the overall cookie I found blah. Enter Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies by Alice Medrich, my new favorite cookbook. I have not made one dud…
No Nut Apple Pie Bars
Last week Alex’s kindergarten class studied apples, so her teacher asked me if I could bake an apple treat for them. Because of the prevalence of nut allergies in kids (and indeed Alex does have one child with nut allergies in her class) I skipped past the apple bars I have made in the past…