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 [...]

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 [...]

Today I am giving you a recipe download for Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies: sophisticated enough for you, simple enough for the kids.  Not your average chewy, chocolate cookie, this recipe gets a kick from fresh ginger  -  kind of a punk modern version of the best traditional gingerbread you’ve ever eaten.