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Healthier Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Maris Callahan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:55:28 +0000

There are a few things in life that I consider highly unpleasant. Problems that I know, deep inside, are first world problems but that I will complain about nonetheless. I dislike visiting the Apple store for computer repairs. I dislike being late, even though I’m never on time for anything in my life. I dislike traffic, long lines and having to walk up and down five flights of stairs to do my laundry (or wait two extra minutes for the elevator). I also dislike the month February. Actually, make that hate the month of February. I’ve never held such a grudge against a day, a week or a month as I do February when sometime in college it occurred to me that every year since I was 12, something unpleasant has happened in February. Now, logically I know I’m lucky that February’s unpleasantness has been relatively minor in the grand scheme of things: break-ups, arguments with friends, several consecutive 3 a.m. nights at work. Things that happen in life but for whatever reason, the universe doles them out in February. What I do like about February is that it’s cold out and bulky sweaters cover up what we here in […]

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Ellie Krieger’s Kitchen Sink Cookies

Maris Callahan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0000

If dried fruit is a healthy snack, oatmeal a nutritious breakfast and canola oil rich in omega-3 fatty acid, then kitchen sink cookies that combines the three must be a super-power food, right? Well, cookies are one of my guilty pleasures, but reality TV is another. I’ve never been an avid TV-watcher, but living alone I like the background noise and find the plots and characters of reality shows to be far more outrageous than any sitcom writer could contrive. It’s no surprise that I’ve taken a liking to The Next Food Network Star. In the program, seven aspiring chefs compete in a series of various cooking challenges for a chance to win their own show on the Food Network. The challenges run the gamut, from cooking a gourmet meal for 12 on a budget to building the ultimate burger and preparing a meal from the hottest spicy chili peppers available. Though the challenges do elicit a certain level of culinary prowess from the contestants, it’s clear from the on-screen interactions between some of the contestants that the show thrives on drama almost as much as the Real World. Though just about every cable network has an arsenal of reality shows, it seems […]

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