snacks

must have morsels

arms full, pocket stocked.

05/16/2008 | 6 Comments | Topics: food., recipes, snacks

I wish, I wish I had had my camera with me this morning. If ever there was a picture perfect moment, one that sums up my sons’ lives right now, it is as they walk out the door to go to school every morning. And this morning was particularly funny. All or our arms were completely full to the brim; a passerby would thing we needed a moving truck… [more]

cooking school: week three

04/22/2008 | 4 Comments | Topics: culinary school, food., snacks

How is it going, you ask? I think I need a tag line somewhere on my site that reads: mom goes to chef school (perhaps for my own benefit). I am approaching my third week and it remains surreal. I have a chef jacket and apron dangling from my indoor clothes’ line with four tentatively placed clothespins… are they really mine? Recently [though not surprisingly], people have been asking… [more]

m ‘n’ m holiday cookies.

03/20/2008 | 5 Comments | Topics: food., holidays, snacks

Easter? Halloween? Christmas? Fourth of July? Bring it. Whatever holiday it is, these cookies can waltz right in and be fashionable, readily available, unassumingly appropriate. All you need to do is buy that bag of holiday colored m ‘n’ ms. Hey, they are cookies. I didn’t say they were good for you. Though I suppose you could sneak in some wheat germ, use wheat flour, add in some flax… [more]

the gamut on granola

01/29/2008 | 5 Comments | Topics: edible gifts, food., recipes, snacks

Gamut is a great word. On June 19, 1999 it was the official word of the day. Did you know there was an official word of the day? The word originally referred to the full musical scale (1529); later it was used to explain a range of colors/hues in a similar way. Now, we use it to describe a full range—or reach—of things from human emotion,… [more]

skip dinner: go straight to dessert.

01/19/2008 | 8 Comments | Topics: dessert, food., recipes, snacks

How would that be for a New Year resolution? (I know what you are thinking, too late for New Year Resolutions. But I like to be a bit unconventional, and sometimes waiting until February to apply resolutions isn’t a bad idea: besides, the gym is far less crowded in Feb than it is in Jan). I have heard of those who eat dessert first. Those who deliberately skip to their… [more]

lunch box cookies

01/14/2008 | 4 Comments | Topics: food., recipes, snacks

For a short while I had two blogs, this and another called Brown Bag Blues. I [unofficially] decommissioned that site so I could focus more on this one. But all is not lost, I plan to occasionally bring you boredom-beating brilliance to cure your brown bag blues. A few of my favorite recipes will find a new home, here. Brown Bag Blues will be a category on this site,… [more]

A slinky, a birdhouse, a pile of rocks and a plate of cookies.

12/24/2007 | 5 Comments | Topics: edible gifts, food., holidays, recipes, snacks

It is Christmas time. And my [extended] family, probably not unlike others, struggle year upon year about whether to give big gifts or little gifts, pile grab bag gifts or make homemade gifts. Are the gifts getting too expensive? Is the family getting so big that we still buy gifts for everyone? How about an exchange? Couple gifts? Family gifts? No gifts? What does your family do? And yet, it… [more]

What’s circular, dotted with holly, and green all over?

12/17/2007 | 8 Comments | Topics: food., holidays, recipes, snacks

Wreath cookies: of course! Many food bloggers do a great job making recipe upon recipe based on the calendar of food blog events. I on the other hand, only serendipitously contribute to these parties, events and recipe roundups floating around on the web. I was happy to find this one—or rather, have it find me: Food Blogga is hosting Christmas Cookies 2007. Now there is a… [more]

Matiz, my sweet torta.

03/23/2007 | 9 Comments | Topics: food., reviews, snacks

I am in love. No, not just with my darling husband and children, but with Matiz. If it sounds like a well-kept secret, well it used to be. And I used to feel like I had the show-stopping trend all tucked away in my own little box of culinary delights. But alas, no more. As with all good trends, like popular baby names or sunflowers or leg warmers, my… [more]

Nuts about Nuts

01/24/2007 | 11 Comments | Topics: food., snacks, starters

Does it get any better? Martha’s January 2007 magazine put my salivary glands in motion with this dessert in her pull-out meal section. I love the idea of serving it with Port at the end of the meal… except even more I wanted to try to make the Banana Tarte Tatin in that same magazine (yum by the way, and not too banana-ey). So,… [more]