Perfect little utensils

I love the Let’s Explore blog, and her shop too. Before the last road trip I got some dinosaur and bird rubbing plates as road trip surprises. I will say that those were kind of a bust; the boys just weren’t into them. BUT! As part of some Earth Day...

Big Soft Ginger Cookies

The other day Eli and I were hankering for some kind of ginger, some kind of molasses (translation: we were out of chocolate chips), and out of the depths of my recipe file I pulled a recipe for Big Soft Ginger Cookies. The recipe is copied from something my mom had,...

Gingerbread pudding cake!

I saw this recipe for gingerbread pudding cake in a two-year-old Bon Appetit I grabbed from the free magazine table at the library. I’m sure it’s a perfect recipe for the fall and winter, but there was no way I was going to wait until then. It’s the...

Eggs

Let’s say that you go to the dump, and then on the way back you suddenly have a mild panic attack because you realize you hard boiled all the eggs for egg salad sandwiches, meaning there are no eggs, and you were thinking of making brownies. Because you get no...

Cherry Shortbread Cookies

These cherry shortbread cookies are from a December Rachael Ray Everyday magazine I picked up at the free magazine table at the library. There is a whole spread of holiday cookies (Julie’s motto: who needs a holiday to make holiday cookies?). These cherry...

Butter Pecan Cookies

Yes, please. Here are some super-easy crazygood cookies that don’t even use eggs. And the recipe only makes 12 cookies, so you won’t be stuck with 70 enticing cookies laughing at you with all their nasty little calories. The recipe is a bit ridiculous in...