From the category archives:

cookies

Two for One

July 28, 2010

Dear Florence and Darla, Please adopt me. You are fabulous and I want to be part of your families. (To my readers who don’t know Florence and Darla – I spent a happy afternoon making spinach kugel with Florence and nut ball cookies with her adopted granddaughter Darla. Below you’ll find more info as to [...]

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Annalayna’s Hamentaschen

April 24, 2010

Nicole Jaconetti is the kind of woman who finds opportunities and then turns them into success. If opportunity was a baseball, she would hit it out of the park. To keep up with the sports metaphors (and because Nicole is a Flyers fan), if opportunity was a hockey puck, she would score goal after goal. [...]

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First Love

February 13, 2010

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’d like to tell you about my first love. Buttercream frosting on hazelnut sponge cake baked by the Swiss Haus. At 2 years old, I fell deeply, madly, passionately in love with my birthday cake and the affair has continued for over 30 plus years. I’ve written about my birthday [...]

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Snow Day

February 7, 2010

Today was a snow day. A gigantic snow day — up to 3 feet. For some reason, all of the huge snow days this year have fallen on a weekend, thereby ruining my plans. Kevin and I took the opportunity to break down a chicken and then let it slowly saute with cumin, garlic, onions [...]

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Chrusciki Cookies

January 30, 2010

Julia Swirski James-Markowski gently laughed at me as I unsuccessfully tried (again) to remove sticky rectangles of dough from the table and fold them into twisted cookies called Chruscikis aka Polish Bow Tie Cookies. We’re at her youngest son’s Gary’s house in Baltimore and she’s shared a 100 year old recipe that her Polish mother, [...]

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Cookie Monster

November 22, 2009

My youngest sister Julie has requested that I shorten my posts. She’s very busy getting her PhD in Public Health Policy from Johns Hopkins. I want her to finish school quickly so she can save kids from depressed parents (her research). Therefore, I’m going to make a concerted effort to start writing fewer words per story. [...]

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Fighting Irish Chocolate Chip Cookies

September 7, 2009

Have you ever played ‘whisper down the lane’? Cindy Burke’s cookie recipe is a little like that game. Now on its third recipe revision, with tweaks along the way, I can only assume that the original recipe must have been delicious because Cindy’s version of the cookies is awesome. I encountered Cindy’s cookies a few [...]

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