I spend a lot of time eating cookies. My friend Becca (with whom I share a baking blog) and I spent the weeks leading up to Christmas baking the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies (read about that grand experience at http://eatitupwithus.blogspot.com/). After that, I thought I wouldn’t make cookies again for a long, long time….
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blueberry oat bars.
Let’s talk about jam. Jam, jelly, preserves, whatever. Jam is the foundation of mine and Becca’s friendship. (For those of you who haven’t been following along, Becca and I are currently engaged in a very exciting 12 days of cookies baking extravaganza.) You see, when we met working at a summer camp near Seattle way…
catching up on the rest of the summer.
This summer has come and gone in the flashiest of a flash. We kept ourselves pretty busy, and almost nothing made it to the blog (hey, grad school time constraints). So here’s a little rundown of everything I missed.
catching up.
Well, there’s no better time to usher in a new year than January 31, right?
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…
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…
the rest of vacation.
So, you saw the Ironman. You saw the hike. Here’s the rest of our vacation in the Great White North (and a tiny bit of Washington, since we had to drive through it to get to Vancouver Island). Originally, we planned on doing a short hike in Olympic National Park on our way to the…
the ultimate peanut butter granola.
Let’s talk about Monday, which threw me off my normal schedule so much that on this Tuesday afternoon, I’m still thinking, “Man, Monday was wack.” I needed to go to the gym to swim for that little triathlon we’re training for (only 6 weeks to go!). This was the longest swim we’ve done so far,…
on food and community.
There’s a reason why people gather around the table. I’ve been reflecting on this idea a lot over the past few months, especially after reading Shauna Niequist’s “Bread and Wine,” which is a book that moved me to laughter and tears and intense hunger for curry and wine. If your soul sings for God, food,…
baked apple cider donut squares.
Okay, I’m cheating on my last day of Christmas cookies. Once again, donuts tempted me out of the actual cookie-baking tradition. But I made these donuts into squares, rather than the traditional donut shape in an attempt to fool you into believing they are actually more like cookies. Let me explain why I NEEDED to…
nutella-stuffed cinnamon sugar donuts.
I’m cheating on the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies. These are obviously not cookies. But before you think I’ve abandoned the cause, let me tell you that these essentially work in the same way that cookies do, okay? They are small, like a cookie. They are easily transported to a holiday party, like a cookie….
mele kalikimaka.
My dad’s side of the family does themed Christmases. I’m not really sure why we started doing this a few years ago, other than the fact that we really wanted to make our own pizzas for Christmas Eve dinner. And with that, a tradition was born. This year’s theme was Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas). My…