Good food feeds the soul
All the Derby parties and spring events such as Easter and Mother’s Day have had me thinking of tea and cookies. There’s just something about large hats and brightly colored spring dresses that remind me of playing tea as a child. I also have thoughts of the traditional …
What better way to warm up than with GINGERBREAD? Ginger is so warming, there’s snow falling and it’s almost Christmas, so it’s definitely time for gingerbread. Day 10 of the Simply Sophisticated Cooking 13-Day Holiday Challenge’s DIY food gift kit is Gingerbread Biscotti. This homemade …
Our first experience with Ciambelle Cookies or Italian Wine Cookies was at a little restaurant in Rome. As we finished our meal, the waitress refilled our wine glasses with red wine and placed these little plump cookies on our table, telling us to dip them …
If fudgy, chocolate cookies are your thing, then you’re going to love Day 8 of the Simply Sophisticated Cooking’s 13-Day Holiday Challenge homemade food gifts. It’s all about Dark Chocolate, Orange and Almond Cookies. The texture of these cookies is like a mixture of fudge and …
It’s Day 2 of the Simply Sophisticated Cooking 13-Day Holiday Challenge. Our DIY food kit for Day 2 is a holiday inspired Chocolate and Cranberry Biscotti. While most of us in the US associate biscotti with the double baked hard cookie that we dip into …
I don’t know about you but it’s been a stressful week for me. First, we had a sewer pipe break and flood the basement of our housesit home and then Trump was elected president. WOW! The world would be a much easier place to live …
It’s cookie time. I’m celebrating the relaunch of Simply Sophisticated Cooking on its self-hosted platform with Brown Butter Cinnamon Sugar Cookies. So far things are running pretty smooth. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it continues. And while not my first post, this is the …
Flipping through the cookie recipes and I keep seeing ones for Thumbprint Cookies. I have never made them before, so I figured “why not?” I like sugar cookies and I love jam! I say sugar cookies because the cookie dough for these cookies is so …
The holidays would not be complete without sugar cookies, so day 11 is just that. I went the simple route and decorated with colored sugar but iced ones are wonderful as well. And the decorating is so much fun for the whole family. Pop out …
Day 10 of the Baker’s Dozen Cookie Challenge is savory with Lemon, Fennel and Olive Oil Shortbread Cookies. I enjoy savory cookies and think they are really underused. Not all cookies have to be sweet to be enjoyable. Toasting the fennel seeds brings the oils …