August 6th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
What can I say? I love a good tea party. And what offers up a better excuse than getting together a bunch of terrific Moms who homeschool, their daughters, and my daughter to host a midday tea at a little gem right here in Palo Alto better known as Tea Time!! On the menu were [...]
June 7th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
So now that the doctors have proclaimed me healthy, the foods I can actually eat have grown exponentially. What I haven’t mentioned to my doctors is that I never actually stopped eating those “no-no” foods; I just cut way back on them. I did give up alcohol for five, six ohhh seven years but whose [...]
January 18th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
If ever a cookie demanded you take a bite with an open mind, this would be the cookie. Aarti Sequeira is the Season Six winner of The Next Food Network Star and is quickly becoming one of my favorites and I pilfer her recipes frequently on FoodNetwork.com. This past December when Food Network released their [...]
January 10th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
With a last name like Gloege, you’d think Drue would love all things ginger (with a heavy splash of butter and molasses to boot). However, it’s taken Drue a few years to fully embrace gingerbread and for a long time she’d pick simpler, lighter cookies over the dense, earthy complexity of gingerbread. We started slowly [...]
January 6th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
Sure, we have a Day 10 cookie post on Day, um, 13… but timing aside, I wanted to go ahead and complete the 12 days of Cookies because I’m enjoying writing and hope someone out there is benefiting from these pictures and recipes. If not, it’s a great way to catalog some of my favorite [...]
January 4th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
Peanut Cookies are pretty much the one cookie that gets made a few times a year around these parts. Jason consumes them with wild abandon and loves them so much, he starts talking like a Keebler Elf when he knows they’re coming. Unlike traditional peanut cookie recipes, we don’t just use peanut butter but also [...]
January 4th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
To say we love citrus in this house is putting it mildly. Drue was popping lemon wedges in her mouth and eating the flesh off the rind before she turned a year old. So when I found the recipe for lime zingers, we decided to include it in the pool of cookies to bake year-round. [...]
January 1st, 2011 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
Last year, I discovered a recipe for Chocolate Dipped Butterscotch Logs and, loving butterscotch proceeded to make these cookies with all sorts of hope and wild abandon. The goal was to include these in our gift baskets to friends and family. Sadly, we never made it that far; we didn’t even make it to the [...]
December 31st, 2010 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
Eggnog is one of my most favorite drinks on the planet. We get it in pint glass jars from our favorite local dairy, Straus Organic Family Creamery. If you’ve seen those California happy cow commercials, those cows live at Straus because this is bar-none the best milk, ice cream, yogurt and eggnog I’ve ever consumed [...]
December 31st, 2010 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
I know, I’m late again… the thing is that I caught this minor cold so I’ve been sleeping a lot more than I usually do. Today I will catch up and post not one but TWO cookie recipes for you. Mmk? So, on to the cookies, specifically, snowberry cookies. These cookies, while considered a delicacy [...]
