Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
The cafeteria at my college dorm had a killer dessert counter. Even for ice cream sundae day, they had mounds of my favorite candy bar of all time–Goldenberg Peanut Chews–as a topping choice along with true blue hot fudge and a whole host of other unhealthy but tasty goodies. One “everything but the kitchen sink” […]
My kids had a rough week – tests at school and grueling after-school activities – so I wanted to give them a nice treat. I wanted to bake them oatmeal raisin cookies, thinking that it’s the healthier alternative to chocolate chip cookies (ha, ha). Lo and behold, I’m out of raisins. Plain oatmeal cookies would […]
Spring is just around the corner. Cut tulips are popping up in the flower sections of grocery stores. Once last shot to make pumpkin bread before I get strange looks. I suppose the end of fall should mark the end of pumpkin bread, but that rule doesn’t work in my house, especially if I’m baking […]
I’m calling these cookies “Polish” not because they are a traditionally Polish, but instead because I made them while visiting Poland over Christmas. While I could have sworn that I repeated exactly what I would have done had I made them in my own kitchen in America–aside from the colored sugar crystals which were nonexistent […]
I had an amazing treat at an office potluck many, many years ago, which was described to me as toffee bark. The bottom layer was made up of crackers (graham crackers or even saltines), on top of which was a butter/brown sugar layer, and then on top of that layer was a lovely chocolate layer. […]