These cookies didn’t turn out how I had thought they would. They turned out even better!

I’ve had a hankering for oatmeal cookies for weeks now, since eating some super delicious ones at a seminar I went to in Berkeley. I also happen to have a box of Quaker Oats that’s been lying dormant since that blueberry oatmeal I made a while back, and what better way to use them up? So I’ve been looking around for oatmeal cookie recipes that sound promising.

Then I picked up a copy of “Martha Stewart’s Cookies” at Target, and found this recipe, and got really excited. Click to continue »

This applesauce was so good, it could pretty much be served with anything.

I served it with our roast chicken, but it’d also be delicious with pork. Or roast beef. Or even dessert.

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Since National Croissant Day (don’t you love these random food holidays?) is coming up on Jan. 30, I decided I’d try to bake some croissants for the blog. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Baking croissants?

Yeah, I thought so too, until I pulled out my favorite baking book — “The Secrets of Baking” — and saw that Sherry Yard’s instructions for making croissants spanned six pages.

Six pages! Click to continue »

After posting the decidedly un-Dutch Saucijzenbroodjes recipe a few weeks ago, I thought I should probably try to redeem myself.

Luckily, I found just the thing while searching for good New Year’s recipes. Click to continue »

Stressing over what to serve for dinner on Christmas? Forget the turkey, ham or prime rib -  here’s a tasty, elegant and pretty easy pork tenderloin recipe for you. Click to continue »

Cranberry sauce should not shloop out of can and end up on a serving platter in cylinder form. That’s just wrong, especially when cranberry sauce is so easy — and cheap — to make. Click to continue »