by Brian | Sep 5, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Cookie Jar, Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Drop cookies come in two forms: rustic and perfectly shaped. Rustic means you drop the dough by tablespoons onto the cookies sheet. The dough plops, the shape is sort of round, you mess with the shape with your fingers, and the cookies bake in that nice but not...
by Suzi | Aug 4, 2010 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Sandwich cookies are a monument in the history of marketing. Some genius figured out that the two layers cemented with sweet filling would prove irresistible. And they are. Do you know how many Oreos have been made? 491 billion. That’s a big number, the size the...
by Brian | Apr 8, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest
My mattress is high, so when I roll out in the morning my feet dangle. That gives me time to check the toes and ankles and few muscles. I can check for a cat on the floor. Am I ready to plop down, do I need to find the Ben Gay, is this a stretching day? In that moment...
by Brian | Mar 24, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Last month I posted a recipe for Subtle and Smooth Peanut Butter Cookies: https://cookingbythebook.com//blog/recipes/sublte-smooth-…butter-cookies/. Some of you have written back to say they are lovely and could I recommend other peanut butter cookies. After all, one...
by Brian | Feb 3, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I don’t want to get into a debate about global warming. I’m a scientist so I respect the recent evidence that something is happening. Thing is, whether you just look at the history of the ice ages or go back for tens of millions of years, there have been significant...
