Wisdom for Dummies
If you snack on the chocolate chips as you make the cookies, the cookies have fewer calories when you eat them later. Find more dubious advice in I Used to Think I Was Not That […]
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CBD: Cookie Baking Disorder
This humor piece is from guest writer Anne Bardsley who answered our invitation for holiday-themed posts! Thirty-two years ago, I developed a serious Cookie Baking Disorder. It has plagued me every holiday season. The CBD […]
Hermit Cookies And Stuff
American Dessert HERMIT COOKIES INGREDIENTS ¾ cup butter (1 more tablespoon later) 1¼ cups sugar 2 eggs 2 tablespoons milk 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon clove ¼ teaspoon […]
Grandma Anna’s Spritz Cookies
Swedish Dessert GRANDMA ANNA’S SPRITZ COOKIES INGREDIENTS 1 cup (2 sticks) butter* ⅔ cup sugar 3 egg yolks 2½ cups flour 1 tsp almond extract (optional) SPECIAL UTENSILS electric beater** cookie gun, aka cookie press […]
Holidays Meet Humor-Secret Santa Millennials….
There’s a post going around Facebook that basically says when my grown kids ask me what I want for Christmas, let them know I just want TIME with them. This is the mantra of all […]
A F’Rigging Ponderable
As an existentialist, I ponder, if a certain-candidate-who-shall-remain-nameless wins the election, is the election still rigged? And do we contest it because it’s rigged? And, does this mean the other candidate’s classified emails were just […]
I Want a Cookie!
You read that right. I want a cookie, and not just any old packaged store cookie. I want a homemade one: sweet, chewy, lightly burned on one side. You know, the kind that makes the […]
Peanut Butter Chip Cookies – Tap it’s Amazing Power
American Dessert PEANUT BUTTER CHIP COOKIES INGREDIENTS 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar ½ cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 10 […]
Eating for Fun
Now that the holiday season is here, it is a good time to think about food, especially the sizes it comes in. Some advertising person somewhere thought up the term “fun size” for those little […]
Unicorn Bites #565
Me: *hugs 4-year-old* I wouldn’t trade you for anything in the world. 4-year-old: I’d trade you for pizza. — Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) November 19, 2014 Me: What’s wrong? 4-year-old: I wish everything was made out […]