No-Rouz

I am visiting some friends in Colorado. Yesterday we celebrated No-Rouz, the Persian New Year. The exact time of No-Rouz changes yearly in accord with the exact time of the beginning of Spring (This year it was in the late afternoon.)  We began by preparing the “Haft Sin.” or “Seven S’s.” As you might guess [...]

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French Butter Cookies

A friend of mine lent me a couple of french cookbooks to browse through. My eye was caught by a recipe for butter cookies from Normandy in the French Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Loomis.. I love french butter cookies, they aren’t too sweet and they melt in your mouth. I immediately got some butter out [...]

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Pistachio Rose Cookies

This afternoon while I was at the store buying roses for a cake, I remembered how I had been missing them in my pantry so I got some extras. I picked up some pistachios also, thinking they would be a nice partner for the roses in a batch of cookies. I made some cookie dough [...]

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C is for Cookie

Last weekend I was on a major cookie kick, starting with some chocolate chip cookies on Thursday. One of my good friends had an Art Show Opening on Sunday, a lucky excuse to bake some more. I made two kinds for the opening, lemon sugar cookies and chocolate sables. The lemon sugar cookies were cut [...]

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Chocolate Chip Cookies, in the works…

Last weekend I went for a little drive and wound up Michigan. Among many things I (I should really say we, as it was a group effort) made some delicious chocolate chip cookies. The recipe that we used is from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. They were delicious, especially with a large glass of [...]

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Sarah Bernhardts

Yesterday I did a cooking demo at the At Home Store. I made some really wonderful cookies that are a cross between a macaron and a truffle. The recipe that I used is from The Sono Baking Company Cookbook:The Best Sweet and Savory Recipes for Every Occasion by John Barricelli. They were really fun to [...]

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A Couple of Shortbread Recipes

There was a blizzard last night and when I woke up this morning, everything was under at least a foot of glistening white snow. Since I was forced to stay home, I took the opportunity to do some baking. I decided to make some shortbread and since I couldn’t decide which kind to make, I [...]

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Baci di dama (Lady’s kisses)

mmmmmm….Baci di dama. These are one of my absolute favorite cookies! They are little hazelnut cookies sandwiched together with a layer of chocolate, in this case chocolate hazelnut spread made by Shawn Askinosie (a favorite chocolate maker of mine.) I had a jar of Shawn’s ‘Hey Hey Hazelnut’ spread that Margot, the ‘chocolate lady’ at [...]

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Strawberries and Shortbread!

Since I already made enough strawberry jam, I decided to make a fresh tart with some of the remaining berries. I was wanting to play around with a new crust recipe and ran into Faith from the kitchn while I was at the Deli, she told me about a oat shortbread crust that she had [...]

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A day that called for cookies…

I really wanted to make a cake for my friend for her birthday! Since she lives in California and I in Michigan, I decided to bake her some cookies. (They are much easier to transport!) I couldn’t settle on just one type so I made three different kinds of cookies. The first were lemon sugar [...]

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