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Filed under: Recipes, Baking, Comfort Food So that 36-hour cookie (unless you make use of vacuums and cut the time) has been all the rage these days, and I've been itching to see what all the fuss is about. While I'm not crazy enough to make them in my AC-free apartment, I happily accepted some fresh-baked cookies from a friend of mine. You know ...

Refreshing smoothies one day…hot tea the next. It’s San Francisco, after all, so sundresses and icy drinks enjoy but brief moments of glory. As much as I reveled in salads last week, I’m baking this week to keep our kitchen warm. All that exuberant sunshine encouraged my little pot of thyme to bolt and bloom. Usually, ...

Breaking two cardinal rules in my kitchen–versatility and real-world functionality–my favorite new toy is silly, beautiful, and fun. It can only do one thing: make cookies in the shape of an obscure cut of lamb. A while back, while checking out the display cases at the excellent little butcher shop, Avendano’s, my friends ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking Purim, the springtime Jewish holiday commemorating the Jews' escape from being destroyed by the evil Haman, is a favorite festival for Jewish kids everywhere. The day frequently involves costume parades, carnivals and feasts, with much eating, drinking and merry-making all around. When I was seven I came ...

Filed under: Recipes, Fruit, Television/Film This week, Martha Stewart is doing a ''Cookie Week'' on her show. We recently did an entire Cookie Month, but I guess that's harder to do on a syndicated TV show without taking up too much time. I'll post the recipes for each day's cookies (she was originally supposed to start the week of recipes ...

Filed under: Recipes, Vegetarian/Vegan, Slashfood Bowl 2008In all the hubbub over super bowl treats, we can't forget the vegan(s) in our lives. Thankfully, Gail at Cooking at the Pacific Outpost has us covered: here's her recipe for vegan sugar cookies, that can be cut out with football-shaped cookie cutters and decorated with vegan frosting to ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Recipes, Slashfood Bowl 2008The perfect melding of sweet and salty, this pie will have your guests cheering for more, so you'd better make two, just in case. Rocky Road Cookie Pizza From: Pillsbury Cookies, Brownies, and Bars You will need: 1 pkg. refrigerated sugar or chocolate chip cookies in log form (it's ...

Filed under: Books, Cookbook of the DayLast spring, I took a trip out to my parents' house in Oregon with the primary intention of going through all my stuff from childhood and choosing what I wanted to keep for the future. I was something of a book collector in my youth (who am I kidding, I am still something of a book collector) and tucked away ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Baking It's the end of the week, and I'm feeling sort of creatively tapped out. My energy to try out new recipes is depleted and all I really want to do is crawl over to my couch with a bowl of popcorn (tossed with a little Bragg's liquid aminos) and watch the the Dr. Who DVD that arrived yesterday in the ...

Filed under: Chocolate, Recipes, Baking, Christmas Believe me, they taste a lot better than they look. I started out this day with a simple plan: make some Ghirardelli White Chocolate and Macadamia Cookies for my Cookie-A-Day post. Three hours and one trip to the store later, I came out with Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. It's a long ...