by Brian | Feb 2, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
My wife is a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn, where the only olive trees are in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, under glass. And her great-grandparents and grandparents emigrated from Poland where, again, any olive trees have to be grown indoors. Yet Suzi craves olives as...
by Brian | Jan 29, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
The word “gooey” is increasing popular. If you use the Google Ngram app, you can track a history of word usage all the way back to 1800. Gooey did not appear at all until about 1900. Usage crept up to 1940, leveled until the early 1960’s and now...
by Brian | Jan 14, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
It’s the second week of January and I have to meet my New Year’s resolution to make one great cookie a week. And again I turn to Cookie Love by Mindy Segal. Her story for this cookie is funny. She’s a cookie genius. She can make anything. Actually,...
by Brian | Jan 5, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
What do you do for dessert as the New Year begins to unwind? You may be desserted out, in need of something light, a bit sweet, maybe with just a bit of a bite. As soon as I saw this recipe I had to make it. I’m a sucker for anything coated in powdered sugar and...
by Brian | Dec 29, 2015 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I errored. I’m sorry. In early December I did a Throwback Thursday Cookbook review of The Good Cookie by Tish Boyle. I mentioned this book contains a couple of cookies that, in and by themselves, make this monumental cookie encyclopedia a “must-have”...
