Dec
27
Whenever I think of Christmas cookies, the basic sugar cookie always comes to mind. The perfect canvas for some serious Christmas artwork. This year I wanted to jazz up some of my sugar cookies. Last year, I came across someone using pink peppercorns in their sugar cookies. That may sound strange, but pink peppercorn aren’t …
Dec
07
Christmas time is a good excuse to make boatload of cookies. A homemade Christmas cookie is always welcomed as a present. I always have my eyes peeled for the next great cookie recipe. I have already made some cookies with chocolate and peppermint this year, so I was looking for a different flavor. I decided …
Dec
07
Ah the sugar cookie, a classic Christmas treat. Houses across the country will decorate these delights this year. A lot of those households will turn to a pre-made mix to make their cookies. I recommend leaving the mix in the store and make them yourself. They are one of the easiest cookies to make from …
Dec
07
This is NOT an official Nestle recipe. However this is my adaptation of Alton Brown’s cookie recipe, which is an adapation itself of the Nestle recipe. Once again this year, Nestle has come out with some dark chocolate & mint morsels for Christmas time. So naturally when I bought these the first time that came …
Dec
05
Christmas time brings about an excuse to make (and eat) a lot of cookies. I am always looking to try different cookie recipes. I realized that I had not tried Alton Brown’s recipe for Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies yet. So I set out to make a batch. Below you will find out my experience with …
Nov
28
What would I do without so of my favorite kitchen gadgets? Over the years I have been collecting tools that will help make jobs quicker in the kitchen. One company that makes a lot of good kitchen gadgets is Oxo. I have a few of their products and haven’t had any problems with them. On …
Nov
16
One of the main reasons fall is my favorite season of all has to be the wide range of colorful leaves. Reds, golds, and oranges displayed throughout the neighborhood. In celebration of this beauty, we made some leaf shaped cookies. But not just some old sugar cookies, that would be boring. We made ginger cookies …
Oct
19
This is a recipe review, which means this is a recipe that I did not personally come up with, but that I tried out and am giving my opinion on how the recipe turned out. For legal reasons I cannot post these recipes, but I can tell you where you can get them yourself. This …
Aug
11
This is a recipe review, which means this is a recipe that I did not personally come up with, but that I tried out and am giving my opinion on how the recipe turned out. For legal reasons I cannot post these recipes, but I can tell you where you can get them yourself. A …
Mar
22
Over the last month, I have gotten a lot of hits on the topic of the electric skillet. One question that has come up more than once, is can you bake in an electric skillet? Can I turn out a batch of chocolate chips cookies in such a device? In order to answer the question …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
