December is the most notorious month on the calendar. It’s both cheerful and stressful: full of parties, shopping, tree-lighting ceremonies, holiday cookie recipes — in this case, white chocolate chip cookies.…
Cooking in a new kitchen is like having a new boyfriend. Stay with me here, I promise, I’m onto something. When you’re in a new relationship you want to put your best foot forward. You can’t let your man other see you in sweatpants or without makeup. You don’t want to be too forward, but you don’t want the lucky guy to think you’re interested. You don’t want to come right out and tell him you like him because you’re…
It seems that whoever designed the kitchen in my new apartment in Chicago does not have a college degree. Instead of opening at a ninety degree angle, as ovens normally do, mine opens to about forty-five degrees. It bumps into the refrigerator, making it next to impossible to slide anything into or out of the oven. Even though I have attempted to cook in it, even sliding a cookie sheet or a baking dish in and out of a preheated oven…
The first time I’d ever had a scone was from a local bakery that my mother and I love. By love, I mean, we talk about going there three days before we actually do and will travel out of our way to go to the CVS next door just so we can pop in “since we’re right here.” After discovering my love of chocolate chip scones I set out to make my own. In the past year, I’ve made a…