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 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 [...]
December 29th, 2010 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
This year we decided to leave the cookie beaten path and venture off onto the road less traveled (by this family anyway). A love of sugar, pecans and peppermint made adding two new cookies to our list easy. So this year we decided to make Mexican Wedding Cookies and Peppermint Snowballs. These two cookies are [...]
December 28th, 2010 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
Yes, yes, yesterday I was supposed to post day 2 of the 12 Days of Cookies, thereby providing you with this lovely recipe for Paradise Macaroons. But in my defense, I slept all day yesterday, which I suppose is not much of a defense at all. That said, and without further ado, I give you [...]
December 26th, 2010 | by Jeri | published in A State of Yum
Today, on the 1st day of Christmas (okay 2nd, but the 1st day of the 12 days of Cookies), let’s take advantage of the post-Xmas downtime time and make some delicious cookies! The trick to this cookie is making sure you spend the time beating the egg white mixture into stiff peaks and setting aside [...]
