… or, as it says on my mom’s little recipe card: choco chip crisps! I suddenly had a deep need to have these cookies the other night. I haven’t had them in years and years. They were a childhood fave and a big treat. Growing up with a mom who was a doctor meant we [...]
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Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies
It’s funny that most of the recipes on this blog are baking recipes. In actual fact, I’m a much better cook than I am a baker. And I’m a much more adventurous cook than I am a baker. Pastry eludes me. I have yet to make a really good muffin, despite 100s of attempts. Cupcakes [...]
Garage Sale Cookies and Meat & Bread
March in Vancouver has been suffering from an identity crisis. It doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. One minute, gorgeous blue skies, crocuses, warm breezes, the next snow, then hurricane force winds, then rain, them some blues skies… often all in the same day! Do you take the umbrella? Do you wear [...]
Chocolate Nutella Thumbprint Cookies and my Grandma
Last week my Grandma Eva passed away. She was 99 – 3 months short of her 100th birthday and my last living grandparent. I hadn’t seen her in a few years – she doesn’t live nearby and the last few years she was no longer able to reply to letters or cards or talk on [...]
Christmas Biscotti
A tripod. I’ve decided that I have to just break down and photograph with a tripod until daylight savings comes back. Or, at least until we get through January. Right now, I envy people who live in cold but sunny places during the winter instead of a warm(er), damp, dark, rainy places. At least then [...]
