So rarely does a recipe come along that gets gingerbread right for good cookies. Often the recipe gives you something too bread-like or to the other extreme it yields something dry and crunchy. Finding a recipe that gives you a soft but firm cookie, the way real gingerbread is meant to be makes you look like a domestic goddess.
Our new summer series is here! HippyMoms, Dipity & Scarlet Mae, blatantly stole this idea from Julie & Julia in an effort to amuse and encourage the members of HM to try something new and fabulous for dinner.
Riz Duxelles
(p. 531 of Mastering the Art of French Cooking)
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Serves: 12
Ingredients:
1 C rice, which you will cook with:
2 C water (adjust amounts for brown [...]
The moral of the story is that zombies bring people together in strange ways, even if their body parts eventually fall off.
I intended to blog about my infamous Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies because they’re delish… but, nothing out of the ordinary happened during the preparation or cooking of said cookies. Nothing. Not a damn thing worth mentioning.
Plus, a little soft pretzel action on the side… (and then?) pancakes… (and then?) guacamole. Manic cooking sprees rock. There is nothing more fulfilling than a good cooking blog. Nothing. Sadly, this is not a GOOD cooking blog. This is… cooking with Melia.
It all started with a bag of apples that were on sale. Apples that my kids promised they would eat. Apples that I knew were destined for greatness [...]
No, not really, although I haven’t yet read my horrorscope for the week. I’m being optimistic here.
The weekend lowdown… I had a brush with political “greatness,” and simultaneously with a very passionate man, while drinking Filt.
Saturday, did fun and exciting things like… grocery shopping! And, I twisted and tied about 6 million shirts for a fall festival next weekend! Oh, then, I ate pierogies. Yum.
Yesterday… ok, it started raining on [...]
