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 …
Originally posted December 2016. Updated August 2026. Our first experience with Italian wine cookies, ciambelline al vino, was in a little restaurant in Rome. We’d finished dinner and the waiter came back, refilled our wine glasses with some red, and set down a plate of …
Originally posted December 2016. Updated September 2026. My Dark Chocolate Orange Crinkle Cookie are like a fudgey brownie and a cookie had a baby. Dark chocolately goodness paired with boozy orange and rolled in enough powdered sugar you’ll look dusted with ‘snow’ after eating one. …
Originally posted December 2016. Updated August 2026. Okay, I’m sure you know by now that I’m a foodie. I’ll plan an entire holiday around a food festival. So if you’re on my friends list, you can usually expect homemade food gift kits (or platters of …
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 …