Laura’s Gourmet Granola: review plus granola cooki...

Have you ever tasted a bowl of oatmeal so lightly and perfectly salted that it caused you to reflectively appreciate how a little dash of salt can actually improve flavor? Being inclined to leave out salt altogether from recipes more often than not, a “just right” hint of salt makes an impact on me. In any case, it was definitely one of my first impressions when sampling Laura’s Gourmet Vanilla Almond...

Have Yourself a Merry Little Cookie Collection

I LOVE the holiday season, and nearly everything about it,  fostering a child-like adoration for A Charlie Brown’s Christmas,  the bustle and trimmings,  and especially the peace and quiet magic that is Christmas Eve. One of my favorite aspects though, has got to be the cookies. Not actually eating cookies, strange as that may sound, but baking and decorating them, enjoying their seasonal scents, and the fun of...

Pumpkin and Cranberry Cheery 2: Pumpkin cranberry ...

In a recent post devoted to two of my favorite ingredients, pumpkins and cranberries, I stressed that this particular holiday spirited combination is so amazing and cheerfully comforting that I’d probably be adding more recipes featuring the two throughout the season. So, just two days after Thanksgiving, here’s an addition as promised, Pumpkin Cranberry Chip cookies. These yummy treats look rather like muffin...

Mighty Molasses

This post includes my favorite molasses cookies recipe.   So, I’ve been posting on this blog for a couple of months now, and it’s high time I talked about molasses. Seriously, if you’re looking for a natural sweetener with nutrition value, look no further. Blackstrap molasses is one sweetener that is well and truly good for you. A tangential rave about its benefits one night to my amazing editor-friend...

Basically Surprising: Simple Oat Molasses Cookie

My husband tells me I’m incorrigibly verbose in my posts, so in an attempt to prove I’m capable of the short and succinct (with the exception, perhaps, of this first sentence), I’m making this one basic and simple, suitable to the cookie experiment it’s about.  Last week, on an unexpected bonus snow day, I switched into cozy holiday spirit mode and went into an afternoon baking frenzy. Most of it...

How the Cookie Crumbles: variations on a theme

This post contains 4 versions of my friend Emilee’s “healthy” banana chocolate chip cookie recipe. I use quotations just because we are, after all, talking cookies, but as snacks go, these can boast some good stuff.   From a certain, very distant vantage point, my friend Emilee is a sort of twin. That is to say, certain coincidences and shared characteristics can seem uncanny. She’s my ideal...