Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

When I first arrived in Oregon after years of living in Texas, I had no idea what Trader Joe's was. There was one a few blocks away ...

Chocolate Sugar Cookies with Pink Frosting

When I was younger, I played lots of team sports like soccer. I like to think that doing so was formative in allowing me to be a “team pl...

24 Hour, 24 Dollar Chocolate Chip Cookies

Behold, the infamous Jaques Torres chocolate chip cookie recipe , as adapted from the New York Times. The cookie that needs more than a p...

White Chocolate, Raspberry, and Pistachio Cookies

According to food lore, the chocolate chip cookie was an accident . A woman named Ruth Graves Wakefield had set about to make a batch of ...

Sushi and Mushroom Salad... for Dessert!!!

So even though I've had this little April Fools' prank planned for a few weeks now, I'm going to go ahead and ruin it with t...

Black Sesame Sugar Cookies with Lemon Curd

A few weekends ago, Erlend and I headed over to the Inner Richmond neighborhood to pick up his surprise Princess Cake for my birthday a...

three chrismukkah recipes (and a bonus appetizer recipe too!)

Now that we're finally over the Thanksgiving hump, it's time to focus on some other holidays! Specifically, 'tis finally the ...

any time you need 'em slice-and-bake chocolate chip cookies

For a long time, I thought the New York Times chocolate chip cookie recipe had ruined me for good. Based on a recipe from famed chocolat...