Tag: Cookies
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Antelope Horns: A Cookie
These are not Gazelle Horns, the North African cookie/pastry. I wanted to make something a little different, and use up some dates and tahini I had on hand. So! these are the Texas variation on those delicacies, created for a friend with a nut allergy to be able to enjoy them. They aren’t a sweet…
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Swedish Cookies
This isn’t really a recipe. It’s more of a memory. But I hear you complain about the long story before the ingredients, so here! Pie Crust Scraps Softened or melted butter Cinnamon Sugar Preheat oven to 400 deg, if you are baking pie shells, or 375 for pies. Make up your pie crusts. Set aside…
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Vintage Kitchen: Muster Gingerbread
This was a somewhat challenging recipe to make, as you’ll see that there are no directions for making the cookies, just a list of ingredients. What I decided that I would do was to mix the ingredients up, and cook them as if I were making one of my other gingerbread recipes. One thing I…
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The Great Cookie Caper
Today is my First Reader’s birthday. We have no gift-exchange traditions, we are as likely to give one another spontaneous gifts as we are to wait for some arbitrarily special day. So for his birthday I had planned to do our usual of making a special meal for him (tonight will be steak and veg…
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Hearty Oaties
The First Reader’s favorite cookies are, surprisingly, almost healthy. Almost. But not all the way there. Oh, and the other thing about these? They must never, ever have raisins in them. Raisins are evil deceptions for people expecting chocolate chips. A while back I ran out of butter, but wanted to make cookies, so I…
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Lemon Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies
These have long been a favorite with my children, in no small part for the kinetic molding method (what kid doesn’t love to stick their fingers into cookie dough?) and because they are nearly infinitely customizable. At least in my kitchen… Because you fill the thumbprint with jam or jelly, and I usually have anywhere…
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Eat This While You Read That: Jim Baen
Writing this post made me reflect on missed opportunities. I never got to meet Jim Baen in person. I would have liked to, and to take him pecan sandies, which I knew were his favorites. Sadly, I couldn’t travel, and then, he was gone. But he’ll never be forgotten and I wanted to pay…
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Eat This While You Read That: Marty Kelley
When I started doing ETWYRT I will admit I didn’t have a big plan for how it would go. But in the year since I started (I’ve skipped a few weeks so we aren’t up to #52 yet) I’ve had the pleasure of talking to all kinds of authors, and an editor, and in asking…
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Eat This While You Read That: George Phillies
When I asked George Phillies for a dish and a book, he sent me several. So I had choices! With the juxtaposition of Christmas, traveling, and the kids to help me, I decided to go with his Snickerdoodles recipe. In a fun turn, this was a recipe you really can read while you make it,…
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Darkside Cookies
If you hang around with science fiction fans (of any flavor) you will inevitably hear a certain phrase. It’s always offered up with giggles, or a leer, or… Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies! Being a geek, and a foodie, when the First Reader made a joke about the dark side having better…
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Beautiful America: Merry Christmas!
Christmas is coming fast, and there is snow on the ground, but the house is dry and warm, so I am happy. Doesn’t take much to make me happy. More photos of kids, baking, charlie-brown trees, and possibly cats, this week. Growing up we never had trees at our house, so I had to go…