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[Recipe] Ghiradelli Classic Brownies (Walnut Remix)
Recently, I asked an acquaintance for baking requests. I like baking (if that hadn't already been abundantly clear *grin* ) and I'm always curious to find out new recipes and new ways of putting things together. So when she suggested brownies with walnuts and chocolate chips in them, I started looking around for new recipes to try out. After all ( Read more... ) -
On fudge and foundations.
Note to self: although parchment paper works great underneath cookies for baking, putting a layer of it underneath fudge in a 9x9 pan really doesn't accomplish the desired goal at all. *wry grin* Next time, I'll know.
Originally crossposted from http://kitchenklutz. ( Read more... ) -
[Recipe] Rum Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies.
OK, so I'm on a bit of a chocolate baking roll. I did a broad Google search for recipes involving chocolate, and one of the recipes I stumbled over was one for rum raisin chocolate chip morsels. However, as it went for an entirely non-gluten/organic angle (the ingredients of which could be rather difficult to easily get one's hands on) I modified ( Read more... ) -
[Recipe] Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies: Redux.
I've been tinkering with a mint chocolate chip cookie recipe for a while now -- started back this spring, when I was putting together a bunch of different baked goods for the Adam Ezra Group hunger fundraiser. Recently I tried another variation on it, once again adapted from the classic Tollhouse recipe, and it turned out well enough that I ( Read more... ) -
I iz alive. And smarter. Advice, o flist?
So... long story short, I got overambitious in the rain with a lengthy hike and ended up semi-drowning my previous dumbphone that I'd gotten along with for almost five years now. On the plus side, I had to buy myself a new phone, so I ended up getting a very fun (and rather eco-friendly) Samsung Replenish running the latest version of Android ( Read more... ) -
[Recipe] Prosciutto-Wrapped Breadsticks, plus Penne Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Sauce
I had a guest over last night, and decided to delve into a new cookbook I'd just bought -- Giada de Laurentiis' Everyday Italian. A bit of poring through said cookbook later, we decided on an appetizer and a main dish -- prosciutto-wrapped breadsticks (p. 45) and penne pasta with the sun-dried tomato pesto sauce (p. 73). One quick stop by the ( Read more... ) -
[Recipe] Sweet & Spicy Macaroni Salad
A week or so back, work brought a selection of sandwiches and side dishes for lunch -- including a very tasty macaroni salad. Naturally, this led me to go in search of macaroni salad recipes. I made this one this afternoon, taking ideas and ingredients from a handful of recipes online, and overall I'm quite happy with it.
( Sweet & Spicy Macaroni Salad ) -
*sigh* Springtime blahs?
In a little more than a week, I fly out from Boston for Vegas and a week road-tripping around the Southwest. I'm trying to get psyched up for my vacation, really, but honestly I'm not feeling any good anticipation right now. Instead, I find myself being all procrastinate-y about stuff I need to get done -- packing, shopping for additional hiking/ ( Read more... ) -
[Recipe] Triple Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
I snagged this recipe off of a baking LJ comm a while back and gave it a wee bit of modification. Overall, though, I'm quite happy with the way it turned out. Really tasty, all in all. So, no further ado, the recipe:
( Triple Chocolate Cranberry Cookies ) -
[Recipe] Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Yesterday was the Adam Ezra Group's Ramble (which was, by the by, awesome), and as last year there was a bake-off (with cookies for free to anyone, and you put money into the jars of the cookies you liked the best, all proceeds going to charities to help feed the hungry). Determined to impress, I made not one but four different batches of cookies ( Read more... )