The holiday season might be the most wonderful time of the year but my the second most wonderful time of year is the time of year when cookies, like these Heath Bar Crunch Cookies, is bake sale season.…
Baked Chicken with Spinach, Roasted Peppers and Mozzarella
Cooking for One or Two, Recipes, Worknight Dinners February 27, 2012
You might think that one would be the loneliest number for anyone who lives alone, but if you’ve ever baked cookies in your bathrobe or eaten dinner standing up in the kitchen with no pants on, you’ll agree with last week’s New York Times article about the freedom and perils of living alone. Song writer Harry Nilsson might have coined the idea in 1967 but for many, living alone is not quite as lonely as one might guess.…
Spicy Noodles with Szechuan Tofu
Cooking for One or Two, Recipes, Worknight Dinners February 24, 2012
Baked Shrimp in Lemon Garlic Sauce
Cooking for One or Two, Recipes, Worknight Dinners February 23, 2012
I know that a lot of the people who read this blog are women. Therefore, I know that many of you have probably seen a good amount of Sex and the City. I also know that in college my friend Kurt used to occasionally borrow my Sex and the City DVDs to watch during Sunday hangovers, so it’s likely that even the boys reading right now have watched an episode or two of Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha.…
Double Chocolate Butterscotch Brownies
Cooking for a Crowd, Recipes, Small Plates & Snacks February 9, 2012
These double chocolate brownies are studded with butterscotch and chocolate chips with the rich taste of cocoa and vanilla. I’ve always liked the word serendipity, from visiting to New York’s famous frozen hot chocolate purveyor as a child to the John Cusack movie that earned my viewership a number of times during a brief lovelorn period my senior year of college. This past weekend I experienced serendipity firsthand when I was deleting the bulk of the online newsletters and junk mail…