Mrs. Fields Copycat Sea Salt and Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
When I was growing up, there was no place else for a girl my age to dazzle her jealous peers with the latest in…
When I was growing up, there was no place else for a girl my age to dazzle her jealous peers with the latest in…
Did someone say mint meringue? This delightful (no pun intended) desert or midnight snack is great for the winter. But honestly it’s great all…
It’s eighty degrees outside, so brightly sunny I’m sure we’ve living under an ozone hole, and we’re camped inside our apartment, shades drawn, like aging movie stars,…
These Christmas cookies are fairly adorable, especially when warm from the oven, which may lead to the temptation to eat all of them before you…
Downtown Rockland is perfect in December. Lighted wreaths on lampposts, couples walking hand in hand through gallery halls, friends in oversized sweaters drinking pints…
September is delicious. Going back to school was always terrifying and thrilling for me. I loved book reports and music class and all the…
Is it possible for a facsimile to be as good as the real thing? What if the source, what you’re copying, is packaged in…
Oatmeal cookies are different. A form of comfort unlike chocolate chip or sugar. They are irregular, dependable. You can put one in your pocket…
I like buying presents. I like shopping and wrapping, searching and spending, being laden with handled bags and packages. I don’t even mind the…
Ninth grade was a time of transition. I never have been good at transition. In middle school – sixth through eight grades – I…
Mrs. Donahue was shaped like the calico cats we stitched together in sewing class, sort of flat and lumpy in the wrong places, and…
In fifth grade, we were given permission to walk the two miles from Pierson School to St Mary’s of the Visitation on Tuesday afternoons,…
Chocolate covered pretzels aside, this is a fantastic cookie dough recipe. The kind of cookie dough you want at a slumber party; the kind…
File this recipe under: How to win friends and influence people. We brought these cookies with us on a family-filled weekend road trip through the…
For the first time in twelve years, and with our baby about to be born, we spent New Year’s Eve sober, sitting on the couch.…
As it turns out, pastry making is quite a bit more difficult than baking the muffins, cakes and quick breads I have begun to…
The street that runs through the center of Thomaston, is one of the most picturesque main thoroughfares in any small town in Midcoast Maine.…