Nigella failed me with the snickerdoodles. After careful consideration, I have decided to give her another shot. I’m just nice that way. It would be far more accurate to say that I failed Nigella’s snickerdoodles, but a moose never admits defeat. A moose blames others. I jest. Besides, I think I know what went wrong [...]
Collecting the unused cinnamon sugar and putting it in your morning coffee. Collecting new recipes for snickerdoodles from kind folk who feel your predicament. Not to mention pasting a sign over your stove that reads, DO NOT OVERCOOK COOKIES. COOKIES DON’T LIKE TO BE OVERC Sign stops because you run out of room. Realize that [...]
Congratulate me, internet. I singlehandedly managed to butcher one of the easiest cookie recipes around. This is a proud day. As a devotee of all things sugar, I am astonished that last night was my first attempt to mangle a batch snickerdoodles. What doesn’t astonish me is that my first batch has the general consistency [...]
Outcome: Not Encouraging My meal was thwarted. Even my blog post about my thwarted meal is thwarted. Cooking With Just Four Ingredients, a gift cookbook by Joanna Farrow, is impossible to locate on the internet. Today’s cookbook will not be linked. We all must march grimly on. While thwarted. Four Ingredients is as easy as [...]
I pore over cookbooks with the same avid, drooling pleasure as a 15-year-old with a stash of Playboys. I haunt bookstores, stroking the cookbooks and frightening the salespeople. I comb the internet searching for new recipes. When I find one, I print it out and stash it away for when I simply can’t survive another [...]
