Cracking the Cookie Code

Fans of my blog know that I make a lot of cookies.  It has taken me a while to figure out that cookies are a science.  Cookies have a formula that if followed can make home-made cookies easy. The magician is about to reveal his secret.  If you follow these basic rules, you can produce…

Lemon Chess Pie

This one is for Bonnie; she has told me she loves lemon desserts.  My brother Mike makes a great lemon meringue pie, so that is his turf.  I have only done one southern chess pie recipe (the Baltimore bomb pie). That one was such a successful recipe that I decided to try a lemon version….

Wait, I like greens?

Growing up in Detroit my experience with greens was iceberg lettuce and canned spinach.  When we had a salad, we had a wedge of iceberg with two cherry tomatoes, a cucumber slice, and lots of blue cheese dressing that covered the bowl.  Canned spinach – yum, what’s not to love about that? We had to…

Cinnamon bourbon butterscotch cookies

I was playing pantry expiration safari and found a bunch of butterscotch morsels whose useful life was coming to the end.  I’m thinking cookies since I had already done bloodies.  So I asked what works well with butterscotch?  I said some bourbon and some cinnamon would work well.  I also thought that I wanted a…