Cookies

Cherries, blueberries, cranberries, and chocolate chips make these over the top oatmeal cookies a fruity, chewy,  sweet, and wonderful treat. Does it make me a horrible parent if I tell the entire internet my kids have been driving me nuts lately? Because they have. I say this as my youngest son stands right next to me with a butter knife, trying to break his tablet out of the protective case I put on it. It’s not a great plan and…

Light and flaky pastry rounds with juicy pineapple filling, topped with maraschino cherries, pecans, and powdered sugar glaze. These pretty pineapple cookies will make you feel like a top pastry chef.  Do you watch any reality tv shows? I watch a few food competition shows, but that’s about it. Well this past weekend at Go Blog Social KC I had the opportunity to meet a reality tv star. Kind of exciting, right? One of the speakers at the conference was…

Smooth and rich dark chocolate encases a delicately flavored orange shortbread. Simple flavors and traditional technique are what make these dipped shortbread cookies shine. Not overly sweet, but completely indulgent all the same, these cookies taste much like those candy chocolate oranges you can find this time of year. Though I do love those treats, these cookies were inspired from a different kind of Christmas orange. I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandmother growing up. My parents…

Granola cookies take all the great benefits of granola and put them into a package that is hard for anyone, big or little, to resist. Who can say no to freshly baked cookies? These healthy granola cookies are sweet, chewy, and wholesome cookies full of oats, fruit, and nuts. A healthier take on one of our family favorites, the classic oatmeal raisin cookie, they share the great similarities, but ditch the high fat and sugar content.

Blah, blah, blah, my house is still torn up. Construction, that tired old and true and very messy and redonkulously expensive story. I never in a million years thought that it would be this hard to blog about food and live through remodeling the house.  They dug holes in our basement floor to redo plumbing this week. Let me tell you, it’s disconcerting to be able to see the earth through a hole in your basement floor. Almost as disconcerting as…

So you might have noticed that last Friday I didn’t get my post up. It was because I went on an impromptu trip to the Nile. That’s a lie. It’s because I went on an impromptu trip to denial. I feel like there are a lot of women who are like super awesome women, who don’t need much sleep, and are organized, and not late, and just in general can-doer, get-stuff-doners . I don’t think I fall into that category…

I know Valentine’s day has come and gone, but I want to talk about love…and food. Love and cooking go hand and hand. I don’t care if y’all disagree, because in my little head this is truth. We cook for the people around us that we care for.   Sorry guys, but I already had this post written up when I realized that the food that went with today’s post actually made an equals sign on the pan, so I…