So, this cute little cup generated surprisingly big feelings. I heard everything from “love that cup!” to “I want a cookie NOW. RIGHT NOW.” Agreed. It says high tea, and Grandma’s sideboard, and you know, it does say gimme two oatmeal chocolate chip cookies RIGHT NOW. And that handle! Just looking at it makes me [...]
Posted in cookies on Apr 19th, 2008
What happens when you play food stylist at home? Even oatmeal cookies become The Beautiful Guide to Softly Lit Eating.
It’s bad enough, the way I peek at their pink bricks and the tall windows. Now I also want to have tea in their garden. I live just a block away but we haven’t met, so I walk past their magnificent house every day with my dog and her pretty red leash – who knows? [...]
Posted in cookies, Holiday, jewish cooking on Mar 20th, 2008
I recently baked some hamantaschen – an eastern European cookie and the popular treat of Purim, the Jewish holiday that falls this weekend. Purim is a party holiday, and one of the unlikely few that do not remind us to be miserable. There is drinking and dancing and noise, all celebrating the ancient triumph over [...]
Ah, another year at the Douglas County Spelling Bee. The school clock ticked, …and parents were asked to turn cell phones off. Some forgot. “Interplanetary.” “Difficult.” “Mercurial.” And that’s just a few. There was also tempestuous, theologist, preengagement, and, perhaps the cruelest word of all, “misspelling.” Which some poor young soul (not Josie) misspelled. Josie [...]
