Look what my best friend sent me!

And look what I made with it…

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies!  YUM!  Thank you, Christy!
(Recipe review:  I only cooked them at 325 for 10 minutes in my convection oven, but they seemed very dry and sandy.  I like my cookies chewy, so maybe I’d try cooking it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]