These cookie sandwiches came into being in steps. It all started with a search for a gluten-free cookie recipe of the chocolate chip variety. I found a recipe by Aran Goyoago and adapted it based on what I had in mind and what I had on hand. The cookies turned out wonderfully chewy and subtly … Read more
When I was in middle school, my mom would buy the cinnamon rolls that come in a can for Sunday breakfast. I loved waking up to a gooey cinnamon roll and lathering on that thick, canned, cream cheese frosting. My mom wouldn’t partake in them, I suppose because she just doesn’t have much of … Read more
This custard almost defeated me. I made it three different times before I got it just how I wanted. It was a bit of an experiment really. Every recipe I came across for anything even remotely similar involved instant coffee or espresso powder, but I wanted nothing to do with that. I actually find the … Read more
Today I am twenty-six. A quarter century of life behind me. I really feel like twenty-five taught me a lot. What I love, what I don’t. What and who really matters to me. How to embrace the good fully, completely, and honestly. How to let things go and brush things off. That I don’t have … Read more
If you follow me on Instagram, you know that it snowed at my dad’s house on Christmas day. It’s quite the rarity in Texas (and Georgia). So the day after Christmas, Dale and I woke up early to take a snowy walk before everything started to melt. It was beautiful and quiet and so so … Read more
This is not a top posts/recipes/photos/food/12 of 2012 post. Instead, I have for you the best soft molasses cookies. I made these cookies on a lazy afternoon in Texas while everyone was out. As they baked, the cookies filled the kitchen with the sweetest of smells. They were pretty much the perfect ending to my … Read more
I’m sorry this is not a peppermint recipe. So many gorgeous peppermint desserts have popped up over the past month or so–these cupcakes, these sandwich cookies, this cake–all sporting the loveliest swirls and specks of red/pink/white. So pretty and likely so delicious to all the peppermint lovers out there. But, it’s just that, well, I … Read more
Sometimes I just need to get away, need a break from the usual, a change of scenery, some new views, that sort of thing. So I am very happy to be in Texas for a couple of weeks. I’ve had leisurely mornings and wine infused evenings. I’ve made cranberry jam and buttermilk cake and learned … Read more
Well. That was crazy. Thanksgiving happened and then the end of the semester, with all its papering and examining and such, came in quick succession. I spent weeks sitting in front of my computer. I forgot what I looked like with makeup on. I ran out of lazy clothes. I made mustache-shaped sugar cookie pops. … Read more
It’s crazy how motivated I get to do anything but study when I have nothing but studying that needs to be done. Nothing gets me in a cleaning, purging, organizing mode quite like having a million pages to write/read/cryover. Thus, in the past two weeks, I have done some updating, reorganizing, and contemplating. I got … Read more