I learned the secret to perfectly textured basic cookies, and no, I’m not kidding you.  Perfect.  These cookies taste like they came from a store, but they’re completely from scratch.  No preservatives.  No weird derivatives for “mouthfeel.”
    
It turns out you don’t need them.
Butter, my friends.  Butter and sugar and flour are the basic cookie [...]

We’ve been studying Van Gogh’s Starry Night this month in school.   Maybe “studying” isn’t the right word.  We’ve been playing with it.
I put a poster up on the wall, eye level with our toddler so they could touch it, trace it, and get really familiar with the painting.
The first night, I saw this as I [...]

This is what you find…

Sarah Bernhardt was a French actress who played the title role of Hamlet.  That’s right.  She played Hamlet.  In Hamlet.  Talk about versatile… And that’s about all I know about her, other than that these cookies were inspired by her and named in her honor.

But oh, the multi-layered delight!  You see these petite little gems [...]

If you want a quick way to expand your master list of I-Can-Cook-These-Dishes (or, in this case, cookies), identify your favorites and change ‘em up.  It’s called improvising and it works just as well in the kitchen as it does behind a microphone or a musical instrument.  Here’s the catch: not everything turns out the [...]