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Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

March 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Baked Goods and Desserts, Recipes

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OK, I am a sucker for chewy homemade chocolate chip cookies. And nothing quite hits the spot in the fall better than my friend Kas’s molasses cookies. And these yeasted butter and sugar cookies are so unusual and addictive, they must be given some credit. But these oatmeal cookies are definitely in the TOP FOUR. And they’re really the cookies I’m famous for. When I was in high school, I’d bake these all the time — they were my dad’s favorite cookies, and were requested for holidays and family gatherings. I got out of the habit for a while — tried other oatmeal cookie recipes, cheated on my favorite, but I keep coming back to these — they’re really the BEST. Chewy and buttery, with the nuttiness of the oats and the crunch of walnuts. You don’t have to make them with chocolate chips — raisins are a perfectly acceptable substitute if you’re a purist — but I happen to think that chocolate chips elevate oatmeal cookies into the realm of the sublime.

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Christmas Cheer – Peppermint Pretzel Bark

December 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Baked Goods and Desserts, Holiday, Quick, Recipes, Winter

The Christmas season is an exciting time for mail. Instead of the usual bills and solicitations (though there are plenty of those), each day’s post brings cards from friends, and my guilty pleasure — Christmas catalogs. I love poring over each one, looking at the Christmas decorations and the Christmas food. Oh the food. I [...]

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Santa Baby, Just Slip a Sablé Under the Tree

December 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Baked Goods and Desserts, Recipes

Rosemary Pine Nut Cookies

It’s Christmas time, and I’ve been baking cookies like a madwoman. There has to be something to leave out for Santa, after all. Yet despite all the baking, we don’t have any cookies in our house. Some have been trotted out to parties, some shared with coworkers, some sent to nurses. And some don’t have such, um, legitimate reasons for disappearing.

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Like these sablés, which is a Frenchie word for shortbread, and which I used because I couldn’t resist the pun. Shortbread is nice, of course — what’s not to like about butter and sugar? But this is particularly wonderful shortbread — Christmas shortbread if you will. You still have butter and sugar, but this time it’s flavored with rosemary, which gives the cookies the faint aroma of a Christmas tree, pine nuts, which have that whiff of luxurious meatiness which makes so many holiday confections special, and orange zest, which always reminds me of Christmas, maybe because I grew up in California, and got an orange in my stocking every year.

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