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If you’re on the lookout for cookies that are chewy, chocolate-y and—dare I say?—healthy, these little nuggets are for you. I found the recipe for these cookies in the Bob’s Red Mill Baking Book, a wonderful cookbook that showcases a wide variety of recipes featuring whole grains. Not only are these cookies made with whole [...]

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My my. Where has the summer gone? How is it already mid-July? Many apologies for neglecting this poor little blog. Being away on vacation can do that to you. Especially a two-week vacation on a Mediterranean cruise! B and I had so much fun eating and drinking our way through Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey. [...]

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No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Dorie’s recipe for Cinnamon Squares was easily adaptable to convert into cupcakes. Instead of baking these in a square pan, I wanted to make individual treats. The result: Sweet, very cinnamon-y cupcakes slathered with chocolate ganache frosting on top and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar… yum! We had a Memorial Day BBQ to [...]

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My dad has the sweetest tooth I know. Every night, about an hour after we finished dinner, he’d stroll back into the kitchen and ask, “Is there anything sweet to eat in the house?” Sweet could be anything—chocolate, cake, cookies, brownies, ice cream… he’s even been known to eat Nutella straight up (and call it [...]

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Egg whites! Too many egg whites. Five, to be exact, left over from making Dorie Greenspan’s Banana Cream Pie and Chocolate Cream Tart (I halved both the recipes). They’d been sitting in my freezer until this weekend (Did you know you could freeze them? Oh yes you can!) when I decided to turn them into cookies. Coconut [...]

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