Since getting a second puppy, I've come to appreciate how well-trained and easy my first dog is. She sleeps through the night, she doesn't have to go potty every 15Β minutes, she doesn't try to eat every single small object that comes in her path, she does what she's told, and she knows some crazy cool tricks. Sigh. I love watching them interact -- they snuggle next to each ... View Post
banana chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.
Mr. Peaches was out of town all weekend, leaving me to concoct a boatload of disastrous recipes as well as a huge mess in my kitchen. Would you like to come over and help me clean it up? I'll pay you in cookies. Deal? OK, well the recipes weren't all totally disastrous. These banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies were perfect actually. OfΒ course they were ... View Post
hotel school oatmeal cookies.
Get this. I didn't even KNOW how to cook a piece of chicken in a skillet before I took a culinary course in the Hotel School during my senior year at Cornell. a.k.a this class changed my LIFE. Even though I wasn't exactly skilled in the kitchen per se, at least I was around to fix something for not-yet-Mr. Peaches, whether it be something as simple as a salad and a panini or a ... View Post
molasses cookies.
The recipe for these molasses cookies come from the holy trinity of cookie recipes, a.k.a.: 1) my mom's kitchen 2) the Betty Crocker Cooky Book, and 3) the infamousΒ wedding cookie tower. So, they've GOT to be good, right??? Indeed they are. These are crispy on the outside. Chewy on the inside. A little spicy, and a little sweet. Just perfect. The Betty Crocker ... View Post
snickerdoodles.
Shut the front door. These cookies are SO good. So good that my mom made like a BAZILLION of them for the guests at our wedding. During the week of the wedding, we had started to have less and less to give as gifts to our guests because my brothers and family friends kept stealing bags of them from the freezers. Yes, freezers, plural. Confession: we had to invest in a new ... View Post
