You wouldn’t know it from my recent posts about cookies and caramel corn, but we’ve actually been eating really well around here these days. Tons of veggies, lots of grains. My resolutions are holding up.
But yesterday I had an hour to kill between work and yoga, and ended up at the grocery store to get [...]

I’m here to praise two things–carrot cake cookies and the CCP team I’ve been coaching for the last three months. Delicious, both.
If I saw this photo, I’d be wanting to hear about the cookies first. Exclamations! Pep rallies! Honor rolls! Trot out all the awards for these. They’re better than carrot cake for several reasons–1)Surface [...]

What’s my deal with white food lately? Chicken and rice, doughnuts, snickerdoodle muffins, and now these. Maybe it’s some sort of subterranean longing for plain, uncomplicated things.
I found this recipe in a magazine at the gym, and now I can’t remember if it was Family Circle, Woman’s Day…one of those free subscriptions that show up [...]

Okay.  The crying and insomnia of the last few days seems to have abated.  Are you ready for some relief?
Let’s hear it for bar cookies.  Just dump that dough in a pan and see what happens.  No rolling, no fretting about burnt edges or how big to make those “Tablespoonfuls” that recipes jauntily call for. [...]

There are at least two kinds of eaters in the world–those that have dessert every night and those that don’t. We’re the latter sort, with the great exception of Company.  Company for dinner, that is.  My grandmother made dessert for her ten children every night.  To this day, my dad instinctively hunts around for a [...]