My second baking endeavor from B. Dylan Hollis’s book Baking Yesteryear was the 1960s Cowboy Cookies! It’s an oatmeal cookie recipe but instead of raisins, swap in chocolate chips, pecans, and toasted coconut. The recipe has you toast the pecans,…
Chocolate Chip Thursday
Day two of “business professional” and I adeptly scaled it back down to fit in, although I still looked sharp. “Sharp as a dart,” my grandmother would say. Mom says I’m a lot like her when I become impatient and…
Christmas Roundup!
December was a sugar-coated whirlwind of activities that didn’t let up until the 26th, which begins WM and I lovingly call … Sloth Week. Schools are closed and TNP is closed until January 2. That leaves us here in the…
A glass of Merlot, a soft quilt, and some stimulating words
It’s time for my most arousing and stimulating read of the year. I’m saving it for a night when WM comes home late…
Cookie tally & work holiday wrapup
The cookies are done and I sang “O night Diviiiiiiine” as I shoved the cooling racks into the dishwasher and put the mixer back up on top of the fridge. Here’s the final tally: Two batches of gingerbread people One…
Rabbit Rabbit – December
Apparently on this blog, NoBloPoMo means NO Blog Posting Month. So here’s some catchup. I went to New Orleans for a business trip in early November. I ate with wild abandon. Mary Poppins came in second place at the office…
Rabbit Rabbit, October cookie edition
Happy October, dear cookie crumbs! Not much going on at Casa de Me lately, but I wanted to share the cookies I made for coworker T’s baby shower last Friday. I purchased new cookie cutters for the occasion — a…
Cookie roundup 2012
And cookie season is over! Phew! I made six different types of cookies this year. The first kind was 10 dozen candy cane kiss cookies (detailed here). Six dozen of those went to a cookie swap, and the remaining 4…
Cookie Swap: Candy cane Kiss Cookies
Sunday I went to a Cookie Swap at Kristen’s mother’s house. (I just remembered I was going to do a new header for Kristen’s blog. Gah!) I used this recipe for Candy Cane Kiss Cookies from Recipe Girl, except I…
Christmas Cookies
From the PhoneCam! Cookies! Originally uploaded by ladygypsy. If you ever wonder where my obsession with christmas baked goods comes from…behold the spread at mom’s. my cookies are at the left. Mom’s are in center. Kristen’s is next over…she bakes…
Cookies! Night 1
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