A fact of life with kids and school these days – Snack Must Be Provided For Snack Time. Week after week I have to find a snack that the kids will eat but which is not nasty like cheezits or chips or other sorts of candy. Sometimes they go in with cheese, other times homemade saltines, some...

I have been experimenting with the dehydrator and blending, mostly modestly sweet to savory things. Today's raw food recipe is more about the sweet. These date heavy cookies should not be eaten every day unless you are trying to gain...

(Don’t forget to enter Lou Manna’s “Best Looking Food of 2009 contest” to win everything you could possibly need for food photography! See my previous post for details. Contest ends February 16th, 2009) We made the usual sugar cookies this year but I do not have any photos, was so dark at the time and, well,...

Those of you surfing here from Darren Rowse’s blog – ProBlogger and specifically about my prize for the Birthday Bash, you have come to the right place! My prize is both eye candy and mouth candy! If you win, you will receive: a signed 8×10 inch print of the peppermint marshmallow puff pastry cookie you...

(Chocolate Coconut Hedgie Cookies) I am a super bad mom, I really am. Once the caffeine hit the system this morning I jumped up and baked these cookies (the dough was in the fridge overnight). The bad part is that we essentially had these for breakfast. We are going to have a second course of...

(This is my latest article for The Spirit World, a blog in the Well Fed Network family) To me, Valentine’s Day is vibrant red and cinnamon flavored. Without that bright and bracing flavor, I have not really DONE Valentine’s Day. As such, I feel that anything presented as Valentine’s specific should be dark red and filled...

As you know from reading some of my previous posts (here), I live in a super tiny village called Wales in central Massachusetts USA. We do not live the fast life here; we enjoy the quiet and solitude of the woods. One of the things I like about the people who live in this region is...

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have a new cookbook called “Tried and True Cookies”, recipes from AllRecipes.com contributors. There are quite a few of the old home favorites and several iterations of various types of cookie to choose from. As I was thumbing through the book, I saw a group for lemon bars,...

Back in December, during my cookie baking furies, I noticed that AllRecipes.com was running a photo contest for cookie photos. I had fresh cookie photos so I entered (see shot above) not really expecting to win because the AllRecipes site gets a huge amount of traffic and there were sure to be many great...

It is possible to have too much of a good thing. Its true, I proved it this weekend. After a couple of weeks of baking cookies and other goodies and letting the kids taste test this and that, my 3 year old hit her wall. The picture above is exactly what it looks like...