The other day I wanted something sweet. So I poured through my cupboards and refrigerator and all I found were the components to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. On a good day this would be awesome, but I wanted the cookies right away. Needless to say, I had to wait. :( But as you can [...]
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The other day I wanted something sweet and Dana suggested those little sugar cookies with jam in the middle. Then it hit me, I had a ton of Strawberry Jam in the freezer from when my parents visited. This would be the perfect combination. Strawberry Jam Cookies. Check out the Strawberry Jam post for some [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Fruit, Jams and Jellies, Recipes, Strawberries Tags: Cookies, jam, strawberry, sugar cookie, thumbprint cookies 1 Comment »I have been on the lookout for a good recipe to re-create the smiley face cookies that I had as a child. These are the large sugar cookies that had the hard glaze over them. I discovered the glaze but the cookie always seems to evade me. I have been making sugar cookies over the [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: glaze, smiley cookies, sugar cookies, sugar cookies with hard glaze 2 Comments »So I love the Dream Bars from PotBelly’s. I have been working hard to recreate them. In order to get everything right, I went to PotBelly’s and purchased a bunch of dream bars. Come to find out, I wasn’t too far off, but I wasn’t right either. When I tasted the Dream Bars, I noticed [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: Chocolate Chips, cookie bar, dream bars, oatmeal, potbelly 3 Comments »Yesterday I posted the recipe for my first attempt at dream bars. It was extremely tasty, but not the dream bars that I was looking for. Today is my second shot. I wanted to make the crust chewier and more moist. I wanted the top to be chewy but not cookie like. So I changed [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: bars, chocolate, coconut, cookie bars, Cookies, dream bars, gooey, pecan 1 Comment »I love Potbelly’s Sandwich Works. They toast the subs, they are extremely cheap and they have Sheila’s Dream Bars. I purchase one of these puppies each and every time I enter Potbelly’s. So the other day I had a thought, why purchase a sub to get a Dream Bar when I could make them at [...]
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Over Thanksgiving I was at my Sister’s house and she made these delicious cookies. When I asked for the recipe she said they were the worlds easiest cookies. That was the understatement of the year. These are the worlds easiest cookies by far. They are also extremely tasty. I ate about 20 of them. So [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: best cookies, cake cookies, cake mix, cake mix cookies, quick cookies, Recipes, simple cookie, tasty cookies, worlds easiest cookies 12 Comments »Well I have made many chocolate chip cookies but never intentionally made thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies. I usually make thick and chewy cookies (my personal preference), but I wanted to see what all the fuss is with crispy cookies. So I did a search looking for thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies. To [...]
My Mom would always make these awesome chocolate cookies for me when I was growing up. I recently asked her for the recipe. Go figure, no-bake cookies require no baking. One pan, a little parchment paper and 40 minutes. Talk about quick treat. I couldn’t wait to try mine so I had one right after [...]
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The other week I was stumbling around the internet and I came across a blog that featured a recipe for homemade Vanilla Wafers. I haven’t had vanilla wafers in years, and they looked amazing. So I decided to give the recipe a try to see if the vanilla wafers tasted as good as they looked. [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: Cookies, homemade vanilla wafers, nilla wafers, Recipes, vanilla cookies 14 Comments »The supermarket by my house makes these crunchy cookies that are filled with walnuts and have a chewy center. They are addictive. So I decided to look around and find a recipe for them. After a while I discovered a recipe that sounds delicious. Although it did not contain nuts, I figured we could work [...]
One of my favorite cookies is the white chocolate macadamia nut cookie. Here in DC Macadamia Nuts are quite expensive so I have never picked them up. That all changed last Thursday when I went into the local giant and they had Macadamia Nuts on sale. Granted they were salted, but they still were extremely [...]
The other night I was looking for something sweet to eat, but I didn’t have much in the pantry. Most cookies needed brown sugar and I was out. I also was lacking in chocolate and other sweet ingredients. Then I found some peanut butter, but peanut butter cookies require brown sugar. So I looked into [...]
September 2, 2010 (12:24) Homemade Hashbrowns I love crispy edged hash browns but have had trouble making them consistently. Great tip on getting the starch out!
August 30, 2010 (11:40) Homemade Hashbrowns Waffle House hash browns have nothing on these suckers. Delish.
August 30, 2010 (9:12) Homemade Hashbrowns YES. Excellent man. Nothing like a good hash brown.
August 29, 2010 (8:13) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Chris - It is totally time to start using up that fresh basil. If you can move it into the house. That basil is good all year.
August 27, 2010 (10:49) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Fresh basil is the best. It's getting that time of year that I need to start using up our basil plants, they have been productive this year.