In the cold winter months, nothing beats a hearty molasses cookie. These cookies are comparable to ginger snaps, but are a little more crunchy, with a hint of molasses. I took the recipe …
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Salty Oat Cookies
When I find a cooking blog that I like, I enjoy taking a moment to read the author’s “About Me” page. Some of the pages include vast descriptions of the blogger’s life. Others include only a few passing phrases, sometimes leaving the reader with more questions than answered. Some pages have yet to even change the default setting from wordpress.
One of the things that I’ve noticed, in looking over the “About Me” pages, is that there seems to be a much larger number of lawyers with cooking blogs than say doctors or businessmen. It amazes me how often I find a lawyer behind a food blog or a cooking show or a burgeoning cupcake business. The Zagats, the couple behind the restaurant surveys, started their professional careers in large law firms. And most recently, one of my good friends quit his law firm job of a few years to start his own restaurant business.
Which begs the question: is there any particular reason lawyers seem more attracted to cooking than their confreres in medicine and business?
Being a lawyer…
Bloody Lady Fingers
When you think finger food, you think small appetizers sitting on a counter top. Maybe vegetables and dip, or cheese and crackers.
These scary cookies give a whole new meaning to the term “finger food.”…
White Chocolate- and Chocolate-Chip Blondies
A little while back, Caitlin and I were invited for a trivia night. The invitation was somewhat last minute, so we needed to find a dessert we could make quickly. These blondies were prepped and done in a flash. And naturally, they were great. That is, the blondies were a much bigger success than we were that evening. (People definitely had more blondies than questions we answered correctly).
The next time you need a travel treat,…
Thin Mint Cookie Cookies
In algebra, the equation f(x) = x² describes a parabolic function that never dips below the x-axis. For any number you can think of, be it negative or positive, be it an integer or a fraction, the graph will never give you a negative value. With the exception of zero, squaring the unknown will only produce a positive outcome.
Which is what I thought would happen when I decided to square my Girl Scout cookies: there could only be a positive outcome. Or so I tried to tell myself.
Taking a mallet and smashing perfectly good Thin Mint Cookies …