20 Aug, 2010
Photo courtesy of Erika at IvoryHut You know what my favorite thing ever is? A really good cookie. So when I set out to make something – anything – for the Big Summer Potluck, I wanted to do something unusual. And then Maggy sent out the call for tea time treats. First, I thought I’d make a ‘safety’ cookie. Some kids apply to a safety school, I make a safety cookie. I made my famous shortbread. The recipe I have is the closest thing to Walker’s Shortbread I’ve ever made, and a certain cookbook author once praised it as some of the best she’s ever had. Shortbread that actually managed to be the worst cookie out of the bunch because [...]
20 Aug, 2010
All photos courtesy of Erika at IvoryHut
27 Jul, 2010
Is there anything more familiar and wholesome than a peanut butter cookie? Not to this American girl. I was thinking a lot this morning about my nan. I miss her a lot. We just visited the family in San Antonio over July 4th, but it’s always hard to leave again. This morning, thinking about Nanny, I was reminded of why I started this blog. So much of what she taught me is poured out on these few webpages. Sadly, she’s at the point now where she hardly cooks for herself anymore, and so she’s forgotten some of the favorite recipes we cooked together. Even stuff I’m not a fan of, like her potato salad. I can make it by heart, [...]
01 Sep, 2009
Ranger Cookies are possibly better than Oatmeal Raisin cookies. And I gotta be honest, that's really saying something for me. I found the recipe in my new version of the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book. It's a great book to have around for all your cooking basics. I got the version that is spiral bound, because I like to have a general cookbook that I can open flat and don't really care if it gets covered in food. Every time I flipped through the book over the last month since it came in my happy little Amazon package, I somehow landed on the page with these Ranger Cookies. I don't believe in coincidences.. Fate was telling me to MAKE [...]
13 Nov, 2008
Look at those lovely flecks of orange Hershey's Pumpkin Spice goodness. I first saw these specialty Hershey's Kisses at Target in a pre-flight snack rush. I grabbed them on impulse. Who knows when you're going to find a novelty like that again? Plus, every time I find something amazing at Target, if I don't buy it, I can never find it again. Anyone else have that problem? Of course, I had one or ten of these immediately, straight out of the bag en route to San Antonio. They are really good. But really sweet. I couldn't eat too many without feeling a bit sickly. But I just knew they had potential. While hanging out at my sister's down in San [...]
12 Nov, 2008
Get thee to a Target and buy some of these: We'll be using them in a recipe later today. And thanks to Frances Civello over at Hershey Insider for the great closeups of these lovelies.
