1. Craziness. Always good to start out a post like this. 2. By Wednesday night, I’ll have attended 6 Christmas concerts, cantatas, worship services, whatever you want to call them. Be on the look out for a synopsis of all of them when finished. 3. My eyes are tired. That tells me something. Just don’t [...]
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Second week of December and it actually feels like it out there. Here we go: 1. O Holy Night is def my fave Christmas (sacred) song. More thoughts on it later this week. 2. Reilly Band (violin rock) and Barlow Girl were both awesome last night. Enjoyed the drive, blaring country music and Sojourn Advent, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Pomegranate White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Oh, bring on the holiday season. I love baking for things during the holidays…trying new festive recipes that get out of my kitchen in a hurry. These will be gone tomorrow! And I did much better on tasting them than the buttercream sessions earlier in the week. I found this recipe on : Pomegranate White [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Dorie Greenspan's Quintuple Chocolate Brownies
A friend who had one of these brownies said they were like fudge. Not fudge brownies, just fudge. I’ll take that as a compliment. These were delicious. I made them to celebrate a friend’s birthday. She liked them with some coffee ice cream. I just used dark chocolate sauce and cool whip. Either way - [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Chocolate Chip Nutella Cookies
Finally bought some Nutella when my parents were here over the summer. Got around to using it tonight for these yummy cookies. Chocolaty - with a hint of hazelnut goodness known as Nutella. 1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature 3/4 cup of brown sugar 3/4 cup of white sugar 1 cup of Nutella [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Apple Walnut Maple Muffins
Sara Foster is my go-to muffin lady. These were good, very fall like. 3 cups flour 1 T baking powder 1 tsp soda 1/2 tsp EACH salt, nutmeg, allspice 1 tsp cinnamon 1 stick butter, unsalted, softened 1/4 cup canola oil 2 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup Grade B (preferred) maply syrup 1 c [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Too Many Chocolate Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies
Can that really be true? Can a cookie have too many chocolate chips? I don’t think so. These cookies are a good indication that I might be right. 1 1/4 cup flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 stick unsalted butter, room temp 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 6 T white sugar 1 [...]
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