Christmas is for cookies and brownies and other luscious sweets. In my house this has traditionally meant all different kinds of cookies, but none were ever really a true Christmas tradition. None were seasonal, none were specific to the holidays and I suppose most of...
I don’t often get worked up about chocolate desserts or snacks. Most of them simply aren’t intense enough for me. Others are too sweet. I’m not interested in watered-down sugary sweet chocolate or creamy milk-chocolate derivatives. If I’m going...
I know I say it a lot, but sometimes the simple things in life are the best. They are often the most satisfying, the most soul-soothing and heartwarming things. It could be a child’s laughter, a favorite frumpy old sweatshirt or a soft smile from that...
Submitted for your approval: The shortbread cookie. Up until now it has lived its life in the shadow of other confections. Until now it has been happy to be looked at as a rather vanilla addition to Holiday tables everywhere, but today a wrong turn down a dark alley...
You might not have noticed from our posts, but we have picky eaters here. That isn’t to say that our kids don’t eat well; they do, but that it can be a challenge to get them to eat at certain times of the day, or to get them to try new things. Firstly,...
Just the mention of white chocolate and macadamia nuts together takes my mind rushing back to the 80’s and the Mrs. Fields Cookie store in the corner of the mall where I worked at the time. I was fresh out of high school and working as a shoe salesman. Lunch...
