by Brian | Jul 5, 2011 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I am a fan of meringue cookies, with fond remembrance of “Surprise Cookies” from my childhood. Mounds of meringue, colored yellow or green or red, and filled with chocolate chips. Fresh from the oven, the meringue was sugar heaven encasing those warm, gooey chips....
by Brian | Jun 7, 2011 | Recipes
If you want to make to make chocolate cookies, you have some options. You can use semi-sweet chocolate, or bitter, or cocoa, or … You can use them all! At once. In the same cookie. I hate to put this statement here but my lawyer insists: If you have sensitivity to...
by Brian | May 31, 2011 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
If I say “Paris” what pops into your mind. The Eiffel Tower? Notre Dame? A special restaurant? For me, it’s a little bridge from one big island to a smaller one. The original Parisians, before the Romans came, were the Parisii and they lived on the islands in the...
by Brian | May 2, 2011 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Today is a new national holiday. It is National Cookie Day. It’s a new idea, spawned by cookie lovers across the land. And in recognition of it’s importance, here is a recipe for celebration. I first posted this months ago, but in honor of this day,...
by Brian | Mar 30, 2011 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
It looked good. I was standing at the counter of Baked in Red Hook, and it really looked good. Suzen was not with me. She was on a plane to Las Vegas. I was free to get whatever I wanted. What happens in Baked, stays in Baked. “What is it?” I asked. “Pistachio...
