Tomorrow we start our diet. Our food consumption has been a little out of control lately, so Dustin and I have vowed for the month of August to be more about clean eating. More salads, fewer desserts. I thought about trying the Whole 30 diet where you eliminate sugar and basically eat just lean protein and all the veggies you want in a fashion...

I was originally going to make mini peanut butter cookies with a Nutella filling (once again, to clean out half-used pantry ingredients), but changed my mind immediately when I stumbled across a picture of some awesome looking peanut butter cookies with a Nutella swirl. Sold. Dustin walked into the apartment with dogs after work, and instantly...

I have honestly never gotten more compliments on a dessert I've made than these cookies. I took two dozen to school one afternoon and within 24 hours, they were all gone. A grassroots canvasser stopped me while walking to my building and asked for one. I ran into one of my cohorts in the elevator, and he requested one. Just about everybody in my...

Stuffed cookies are currently one of my favorite things! There's nothing better than biting into a cookie fresh from the oven and getting a melty surprise in the middle. These are similar in idea to the salted caramel chocolate chip cookies, but with a slightly different chocolate chip cookie recipe that ended up with my puffier cookies (good...

It may sound a little crazy to put cayenne pepper in cookies, but chocolate and spice are a match made in heaven. Just go look at the aisle of fancy chocolates in the grocery store if you don't believe me. I was a little bored pretty late one evening, putting off reading I wasn't all that interested in completing. Dustin was out of town and the...

I am completely happy with our decision to move to LA. For my career it was definitely the right way to go. I am still a bit regretful we don't get New York bagels, Momofuku Milk Bar, or black and white cookies. There would have been a few upsides to going to grad school in NYC. I am remedying these losses with my Momofuku cookbook and...

During our chocolate chip cookie challenge, I may have been a little bit naughty and picked up an extra banana split cookie from one of our stops. It's as if banana pudding and chocolate chip cookies had a delicious baby together with some maraschino cherries mixed in to make it a banana split. Within the week, I was already recreating this...

If the Texans weren't going to make it to the Super Bowl, and let's face it, we realized quite early on this season that that wasn't going to happen, there is no team other than the Seahawks we would have rather picked to win it all. Since the Texans were usually the early game and the Seahawks the late game, when we lived in Seattle we'd...

In addition to the Oreo truffles, I wanted to make my signature sugar cookie. But rolling out cookies kind of seemed like a pain in the butt I didn't feel like dealing with. So basically I dumped sugar cookie dough into 13"x9" pan and baked them. It worked out nicely. I expected these to be more like the texture of a Lofthouse cookie and with...

I really enjoyed making the pumpkin biscotti back in October, so this holiday season I decided I would make biscotti again with a slightly different twist using the ever so popular holiday flavor combination of chocolate and peppermint. I intended to use these cute little Christmas tree sprinkles I have, but when I went looking through the...