People are WEIRD about cookies. Some people like chewy ones. (numnumnum) Some people like crispy ones. (edges only, please) Some people like plain ones sprinkled with sugar. (snooze fest). Some people like…(ew)…raisins in theirs. But nobody hates chocolate chip cookies. That’s like hating puppies. Nobody likes dry cookies either, but some people like whole wheat …
My “take that, Martha!” cheese cake – breaking all the rules. Low-fat, no water bath, kinda high baking temp. It will all work out. Just don’t over mix and don’t over bake. The end! But this IS a soft (note cakey!), mildly indulgent, sweet and tangy cheese cake. Ohhh, cheese cake. How can I even …
Leah Goldberg wrote: Perhaps only migrating birds know/ Suspended between earth and sky/The heartache of two homelands. After posting last week, I began worrying that I have been straying from my Jerusalem-inspired cooking and settling with recipes that are simply easy to make. This is probably because Trader Joe’s is at my beck and call, the onions …
Shame on me. I’ve been a little tardy with my posting this week. As an apology, I’m posting two recipes that I’m calling “cheaters,” because you can put them together in NO time and together they almost amount to the time of making one meal. Chocolate bark is, like, the easiest thing ever. You can’t …
I know what you’re thinking: Um, Lauren, this post is about a month overdue. It’s not warm where I live anymore. Well, allow me gloat for just a moment. Because the weather is pri-taaay, pri-taaaay nice in San Francisco these days. Now, whether or not you can get the wording right the first time, we have …
I hope you didn’t think I forgot about you! But moving from friend’s house to friend’s house and sleeping on an air mattress in this friend’s newly rented & empty apartment hasn’t really lent itself to a whole lot of cooking. Or enjoyment. In the last week, Adam and I have looked at 20+ apartments …
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I might be posting erratically for the next couple of weeks, and since we’ve just begun our move up to San Francisco and we’re staying with friends, I don’t have much access to a kitchen and my warning to you has become true. Given that I will …
First of all, thanks for being patient with me during this last week or so of transition. I’m so sorry that I’ve neglected my blog, but I am back and full force with a bunch of new recipes that I am really excited to post! Because I’m shifting gears now and getting ready to begin …
I am writing to you now from Ben Gurion airport, all packed up and with one final bag of trail mix put together from my favorite spice shop in the shuk. When I go through Israeli airport security, my fiance, Adam, knows how much I usually love the interrogation and level of detail the security …
Whenever something breaks in my apartment, I feel really bad calling my landlord and asking him to come down to fix it. Despite being jolly, helpful and never making me feel bad, I always feel guilty for disturbing him. When I dropped 10+ cups of dry rolled-oats behind my fridge the other day, and they …
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