Peanut butter AND chocolate chips AND oatmeal? Overkill? I don’t think so. Neither did anybody who tried these cookies.
I found the original recipe on www.browneyedbaker.com and made my first batch exactly as the recipe was written. Then I decided to experiment a little bit.
My first change was to use chunky peanut butter instead of creamy. [...]

Lest you think we are only about sugar and cream and flour around here, take a look at that picture. Black. Bean. Soup. Served over chewy brown rice with a dollop of sour cream, this stuff is heaven.
I got the original recipe here. When I first saw it, I was smitten. I immediately ran out [...]

Salty sweets seem to be catching my eye lately. First there were those salty oatmeal cookies and now these dark chocolate cupcakes that are liberally sprinkled with coarse salt before baking and after frosting. The cupcakes were good, but the star of this recipe is the butterscotch icing. Oh my.
The recipe comes from a new [...]

The two weeks before Christmas were filled with batches of caramel and almond toffee, peppermint bark and nougat. At the end of it all, I was sugared out. That lasted approximately 10 seconds, then I found this recipe for oatmeal cookies.
Unlike regular oatmeal cookies, the dough for these contain no salt. Sea salt (or kosher [...]

The folks over at www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/ have the perfect job. See, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make money by baking whatever I want, whenever I want. So far, I haven’t had much luck, but I’m sure enjoying the practice.
Anyway, that blog up there? Well, they’re the source for these cookies. The cookies don’t [...]

A week or so before Thanksgiving, I went on a mission to find a really good roll recipe for those all-important leftover turkey sandwiches. I think I tried three or four recipes before finally settling on this one from the King Arthur Flour website.
The only change I made to the recipe was to increase the [...]

This cake has been making the rounds in the food blogging world. The recipe comes from thepioneerwoman.com, a website by Ree Drummond, chronicling her life on a ranch. She’s witty, funny and irreverent, and I’m insanely jealous of her kitchen.
Anyway, back to the cake. It’s your typical sheet cake, you know, like the ones that [...]

Almost exactly a year ago, I was wandering around the Borough Market in London. It was my first trip to London, and I was having a fantastic time. The market was full of people and food, and I probably looked like a dolt as I snapped picture after picture. One of the stands I wandered [...]

I haven’t been doing much baking lately because it has been too hot. But we’ve cooled down over the last couple of days, and I started feeling the baking itch. During my internet surfing, I came across this recipe from the Food and Wine Magazine website. It looked pretty easy and I had all the [...]

For more than eight months, this recipe has been sitting in my “to try” pile. But instead of making it during the dark, cold days of winter when we craved comfort food, I had to wait until the hottest week of summer, in a house with no air conditioning. There’s something wrong with me, I [...]