In a continuation of one of our slowest rounds of the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies, I’m finally getting around to my fifth cookie of the season… I’ve been sending all of these cookies to the office with Eric, so his co-workers have become my test kitchen, offering suggestions, critiques, and (thankfully) compliments. One of…
homemade oreos.
So, it’s December 16, and we’re only on our fifth of the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies. Whoops. If you missed Days 1-4, check out my Chocolate Thumbprints with Bourbon Caramel and Sea Salt, Brown Butter Pecan Sandies with Chocolate, and Maple Shortbread, as well as Becca’s Peppermint Stars with Dark Chocolate Drizzle (she’s revived…
maple shortbread.
Today’s 12 days of Christmas cookies post is dedicated to Canada and our trip to the Great White North back in June. If you’ll recall warmer, drier days with me here for a minute, let’s return to Vancouver Island. Let’s forget about the little triathlon and focus on the Canadian fun. Paddleboarding, backpacking, eating maple…
brown butter pecan sandies with chocolate.
Let’s talk about Christmas movies. I assume that most folks have a list of movies they like to watch each holiday season. I tend to like my holiday movies to lean toward funny, rather than heartwarming, since I spend much of the holiday season crying through Christmas commercials (has anyone seen the one where the…
chocolate thumbprints with bourbon caramel and sea salt.
It’s December! And although I feel like I just put away the butter and sugar from last year’s 12 Days of Christmas Cookies, somehow it’s already time to lead you into another sugar coma. For those of you who are new to the blog, every year, my pal Becca and I bake way too many…
candy corn and peanuts.
Now that it’s October (seriously, how did this happen?), we can talk about the snack you should be eating for the next month. This is the ultimate fall treat. Not because it is pumpkin spice anything. Not because it involves apples. But because it features candy corn. I’m not going to try to trick you…
chocolate peanut butter pretzel cookies.
I realize that today is the official first day of Autumn, and therefore I should be singing the praises of all things apple and pumpkin and harvesty. But I did that last week. Today, I’ll just tell you that we slept with our bedroom window open last night, and it got down to around 45…
baked apple cider doughnut holes.
‘Tis the season for everything apple cider. Last Autumn, I went on a heartbreaking quest for apple cider doughnuts in Portland, and came up empty. I went to the farm that Yelp claimed had the best apple cider doughnuts in town, and they were sad. Bland. Tasteless. As you know, I’m a little picky about…
dark chocolate salted bourbon brownies.
Dark chocolate. Bulleit Bourbon. Jacobsen Sea Salt. We knocked it out of the park with this one. Brownies are not typically my dessert of choice, partially due to a brownie overdose while working in the camp kitchen 7 summers ago. We made enormous trays of brownies for the campers, and then ate the batter straight…
berry pretzel pie.
Berries strike again! Are you sensing a theme in my eating life? Since I picked 8 1/2 pounds of fresh, juicy, incredibly red, cutting board staining strawberries, our meals, desserts, and snacks kind of centered around strawberries for a week. As it should, because fresh berries are the key to happiness. But not the key…
strawberry parfaits with bourbon whipped cream.
It’s officially strawberry season here in Oregon, and I am thrilled. I went out to Sauvie Island last week to do a little strawberry picking at Bella Organic. Sidenote from a Portland newbie: Did you know Sauvie Island is actually an island in the Columbia River? I had no idea. Obviously, this makes sense, but…
coffee and doughnuts ice cream.
Oh my goodness. This ice cream. As you may recall from the Portland Donut Crawl, I promised to make ice cream with doughnuts from the winning shop. Pip’s Original came out way, way, way on top, so I picked up a few dozen cinnamon sugar doughnuts and got experimenting with ice cream. And self-control. I…
kentucky derby pie cookies.
Let’s sneak another Derby recipe in just under the wire. I’m almost certain that I’ve never had an “official Derby Pie” (a.k.a. one baked by Kern’s Kitchen, which has the name trademarked). Back home, we always made our own Derby Pie (or, unofficial-Derby-Pie) to celebrate the great horse race, but we’re technically not allowed to…
kentucky mint bourbonale.
The Kentucky Derby is this Saturday, and as an ode to our Old Kentucky Home, we’re celebrating with bourbon. I don’t know much about cocktails. So when I say I’ve invented this new and fantastic cocktail, I may be completely lying. For all I know, people have been making this exact same beverage for years….
easy berry cashew bars.
Remember these cashew date bars? We were (and are) big fans of those. But after eating a lot of them, I wanted something different. Something that tasted like fruit. Obviously, you can’t put fresh fruit in a granola bar and expect it to last very long or travel very well. So I got to thinking…
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