Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

100th post!  Holy cow, right!?     😀 I’m on this kick of making huge cookies.  I blame The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie that I made recently and of course my husband who has a near religious problem with little cookies.     😉  I’ve made Traditional Sugar Cookies before.  You know, the ones where you roll out the cookie dough and cut out fun shapes.  I love those and while they are “easy” to make, they are quite time consuming and I have to be in the mood for that process.  These still take a while to make thanks to chilling …

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New Look

Do you ever feel like you need a change?  I am approaching my 100th post and I thought what better way to mark the occasion by making some updates to my blog. Here’s what’s new: I’m on Twitter now!  I know…why’d it take you so long?  At the top right of the blog, you can now follow me on Twitter.     🙂 You can now subscribe to get emailed when a new post is published.  Stay in the loop in another fun new way.     🙂 I have some featured posts at the top of my blog, instead …

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Kitchen Organization

As a neat freak I have a tendency to want to organize things.  I really enjoy organizing things, a lot.  Yea, I’m not sure if that’s weird or not, but whatever.  When I started writing this post, my husband told me our kitchen is neat, but not organized.  What?!  Well, it seems this appears to be subjective.  I can find everything very easily and he can’t find anything at all without asking me all the time where things are.  Is that because I was the person who did the organizing?   If you do the organizing, does that mean the …

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Homemade Chipwich

When I was a kid my family and I used vacation in Lake George, NY.  For one week, almost every year, our life was all about miniature golf, pool time, and cheesy shops on the main drag down town.  We especially looked forward to visiting a bakery that sold chipwiches.  They were huge and delicious!  Sadly, the bakery closed a bunch of years back cutting off our supply.  No more chipwiches!  We were so disappointed.  It’s been about 10 years since that happened and we still talk about how we miss those infamous chipwiches. These homemade chipwiches are identical to …

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Black Bean Spread

My husband and I love hummus, especially my Easy Hummus recipe.  We love black beans at least as much as we love chick peas.  This got the gears turning…  “I wonder if we can make hummus using black beans?”  Well, we love Mexican food too (which of course regularly features black beans) and decided that would be a great place to start for the seasonings.  By the time we were done, we had created a Mexican inspired black bean based “hummus.”  I must give joint credit to my husband for helping me create this awesome recipe.  Love you, babe.   …

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