Happy Quarantine Thanksgiving! This has been the strangest year. But I am thankful for the extra time at home with my son and I’m especially thankful that this is the 2020 pandemic and not the 1918 pandemic. We have FaceTime and online ordering and the ability to work from home. And since I’m not sharing cookies around a big Thanksgiving table this year, I’m thankful that I can share them virtually. Read more…
When I was pregnant people kept asking me if belly button had popped. I kept repeating that it was not a turkey timer. Eventually, we started calling the baby “turkey.” It stuck. He is almost 6 months old and we still call him Turkey. Fast forward to Thanksgiving and the nickname has become hilarious. On an up note, he has received lots of turkey-themed gifts this Fall and I was gifted a neat turkey cookie cutter. Read more…
This year, Nate is thankful for pumpkin spice toffee sugar cookies, adapted from this recipe. He has been eating the dough out of the freezer as fast as I can make it. I did manage to get a few cookies out of the batch, but I’m told the uncooked dough is even tastier than the cookies. Read more…
A few days before Halloween, Nate declared the 2015 baking season officially open. At my house, “baking season” means that cookie-ing goes from a monthly thing to a daily thing. It consumes my kitchen, my dining room, and most of my spare time. To celebrate baking season (and Thanksgiving!) I made pie cookies: COOKIES THAT LOOK LIKE PIE. Read more…
Because we need to work on the house, Nate and I will spend Thanksgiving at home in DC. When we started working on the house back in June, we thought all of the work would be completed by August. We did not know much about fixing houses in June. Read more…
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