Wherefore Art Thou, Hamantaschen Recipe of My Dreams?
You may recall that last year around this time, my hamantaschen melted.
This year’s recipe was an improvement on that sorry experience, but it’s the first time ...
Baking, Dessert, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Weight Watchers
Samoa Cookie Bars
A long, long time ago, waaaaay back in the early days of Words to Eat By, I made homemade Samoas, everybody’s favorite Girl Scout cookie. ...
Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Nutritious Nibbles, Pantry Cooking, Snack, Weight Watchers
Nutty Chocolate-Cherry Granola
Olive Oil Granola is kind of a thing, have you heard? Melissa Clark started it, I think, in the New York ...
Baby Food, Baking, Breakfast, My Story, Snack, Weight Watchers
Eight Years Ago This Very Minute…
…the man I would someday marry sat next to me at Tavern on Jane. I was expecting him—we’d met online, and I’d learned from years ...
Baking, Dessert, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Parenting, Snack
I Gave Him My Heart (now give me a pen)*
I’m not gonna lie: These Chocolate Whole Wheat Sandwich Cookies with Raspberry Filling are a production. It took me the better part of an afternoon to ...
Baby Food, Baking, Books, Bread, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Pantry Cooking, Sides, Starters, Weight Watchers
Herbed Flatbread from Good to the Grain
If you read a lot of food blogs, I’m going to guess you’ve heard about Kim Boyce’s cookbook Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain ...
Baby Food, Baking, Books, Breakfast, Pantry Cooking, Weight Watchers
Dorie Greenspan’s Maple-Cornmeal Biscuits
Snow day. Again. Seriously, God, don’t you think it’s time to ease up? I know it’s selfish of me to put it in these terms, but ...
Baking, Dessert, Pantry Cooking, Snack, Weight Watchers
Emergency Peanut Butter Cookies
It’s Saturday night, and I had a cookie emergency.
By that, I mean that I’m at home on a Saturday night—what else is new—and I.need.cookies. But other ...
Baking, Dessert, New York, Snack
Bonbons in a Blizzard
I am in so much trouble.
For my birthday, Stephen took me to dinner at Franny’s*. They don’t take reservations, so ...
Chocolate-Almond Spritz Cookies
These lightly sweet, crumbly little cookies were our holiday gift for Harry’s teachers—they’re spritz cookies, the kind you make with a cookie press (mine is ...