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December 23, 2009 in cookies, vegetarian • 2 comments
Time now to quit with the endless family stories and begin slamming out these cookie recipes. Today I made progress on this month’s Daring Bakers Challenge. It’s a secret, to be revealed on the 27th. Which is a shame, because it’s sort of festive. :p
Also began filling the chocolate mint cookie sandwiches. Damn, those little [...]
December 14, 2009 in cookies, vegetarian • 9 comments
Guess what? I actually got off my arse and did some research for y’all this time.
moops?
See, the cookie we call Mexican wedding cakes, or Russian tea cakes, or polvorones in Spain, or melting moments in Australia actually has a common descendent: the “sandie” type cookie first developed by the Moors in the Middle Ages, medieval [...]
August 23, 2009 in PIE, desserts, gluten-free, vegetarian • 13 comments
Now there’s a mouthful. Know why? Because it’s so versatile. It works for the gluten-free folks. It works for the pie folks. It works for the tart folks. It works for the don’t-make-me-get-out-the-rolling-pin folks.
Even better, this walnut-oat pie crust recipe is just a prelude to the fresh blueberry pie I made it with, coming up [...]
June 30, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, cookies, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian • 4 comments
Ignore the “gluten-free” in the title. These are not some saintly cardboardy cookie things.
And I’m really not trying to be All About Baking here. Honestly.
And I’m not trying to be all health nut vegetarian gluten-free, either. FSM knows I’m a crappy vegetarian and an even more piss-poor health nut.
But you know what? These cookies [...]
