fat free opinions on a food centric life
I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date. No time to say “hello,” “goodbye,” I’m late, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late…and if I could find my head, I’d scratch it and say that, sure. I feel a bit like Alice in Wonderland, sitting …
Day 6 of The 12 Days of Cookies brings a recipe featured in the September 1966 issue of Gourmet magazine. In 1966, I was in the 4th grade at John F. Farragut School in Rota, Spain where my father was stationed. It was our second …
Everyone sing along: On the Fifth Day of Cookies, my oven gave to me….another batch of yucky looking discs.
Wait. I'm not blaming this one on my oven. In fact, I'll never blame anything on it.
They taste great, as long as you don't mind biting into something that looks like a fried egg with a pink center. Light, slightly crisp at the edges, and oh so buttery. And then there's that little taste of jam. Nice.
But I'm not loving the recipe: Aunt Sis's Strawberry Tart Cookies, Gourmet's favorite from 1993. Sorry Aunt Sis. Honestly.
Day 4 of The 12 Days of Cookies is starting a bit better than yesterday ended with the last cookie attempted. Being the planner I am when confronted with a lot of work, I not only chose all 12 cookies I’d make, I organized them …
My contribution to Day 3 of our little 12 Days of Cookies event is the Black-and-White Cookie, and to be honest, I’d never heard of them before. I was simply attracted to the look of the frosting and the simple aspect of dark and light. …