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 »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 [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: bars, chocolate, coconut, cookie bars, Cookies, dream bars, gooey, pecan No 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Since it has been raining here in DC it has cooled off a bit. Yesterday morning it was 65 degrees. Perfect to read the paper and drink my coffee before work. The only thing missing was the perfect accompaniment to coffee. Shortbread cookies. So today, I made some light and fluffy shortbread cookies. This recipe [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes, Shortbread Tags: coffee cookies, Cookies, easy cookies, Recipes, scottish shortbread, Shortbread, shortbread cookies, shortbreads, tea biscuits, tea cookies No Comments »I have been on a quest for the best chocolate chip cookies for a while. After a while I have figured out the ingredients needed to make a really good cookie. You need to use both butter and shortening. If you use all butter your cookies come out flat and crunchy. If you use all [...]
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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.