Here we are just a couple days away from December, and I am not ready. Last year I made 12 days of cookies and wanted to it to be a tradition but I’m really not ready.
I am not ready to bake for 12 days straight. I’m not ready to eat cookies for 12 days straight. I’m not ready to run the number of miles it would take to work off all those cookies.
But I do think there should be cookies and other treats in December. I mean, what are the holidays without them?
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Tagged as: cookies, holidays
That’s right, chocolate chip cookie dough on a stick. No baking required. Freeze it, dip it in chocolate, and then… Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!… Wow, are these things good.
It all started last week when I asked Dan’s oldest son (let’s call him L-Train) what sort of treat he’d like for his birthday. Initially, he really wanted a cheese calzone and since I’ve made calzones a few times before, I said “No problem.” But then he said: “I want a cheese calzone just like the school cafeteria makes them.”
Whatchu talkin’ ’bout Willis?
I apologetically informed L-Train that I do not possess the Lunch Lady’s recipe so could not guarantee that the cheese calzone would be exactly the same as he has at school (by the way, this was all a week before school began so I guess he was feeling withdrawals after a long summer without his cheese calzone hot lunch).
Visibly disappointed, he considered the calzone issue. Then changed his mind and announced: “I want chocolate chip cookie dough” (his emphasis, not mine).
Me: Not cookies?
L-Train: “No… dough. I want to eat the dough.
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Tagged as: chocolate, chocolate chip cookie dough, cookies, dessert, frozen
Dear friends, I made lemon bars. I made them and I ate them and ate them. And then I sent them away.
Truth: I cannot be left alone with an entire batch of lemon bars.
It all started when a friend gave us a bag of lemons. I love lemons. But I was paralyzed by the question: what do you do with that many lemons?
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Tagged as: cookies, dessert, lemon, lemon bars
Welcome back, I missed you so much! Okay, fine. I’m the one who hasn’t been around blah blah blah, but I still missed you. Let’s catch up over cookies and milk.
Since confessing my sugar sins, I’ve been thinking a lot about food. I haven’t been cooking as much as just thinking (and eating, of course. A girl’s gotta eat, after all).
My thoughts have gone something like this: I eat too much sugar. I should eat more vegetables. That bacon sure smells good. Do people really give up all refined flour and eat only whole wheat? Even pasta? Whole wheat pasta is okay but… Oooo, look pudding!
Well, you get the idea. I want to be healthy but I still like bacon and pudding (and chocolate and butter). Anyway… so I’m adopting what I like to call the Benjamin Franklin Diet or BFD for short, hehe. – All things in moderation… including moderation.
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Tagged as: almond butter, chocolate, clean eating, cookies, dairy free, gluten free, low sugar
Is it just me or are macarons popping up everywhere? I’ve even seen some at Starbucks and the freezer section of Trader Joe’s. Macarons are the new cupcake. Or at least they seem to be from where I’m sitting.
Remember not too long ago when I gushed over dinner at Masa’s and their candy cart? It was my first taste of macarons and I fell hard. I became infatuated. Like that first magical kiss, it was all I could think about.
I wanted another kiss. I searched high and low until I found a bakery not quite nearby but close enough. Pamplemousse has over a dozen flavors of macarons and for a special birthday treat I took home a dozen little beauties just for me… and Dan. It was his birthday week too so I had to share.
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Tagged as: cookies, macarons, the new cupcake
