A cookie can be so many things: a hearty breakfast substitute, a dainty two-bite morsel, or a guilt-inducing volcano of instant gratification.  I love them all!  Here are five of my favorite recipes, from the righteous to the utterly self-indulgent, which, if you slip into the school week, will undoubtedly be met by shouts of surprise and delight. I’ve been making the Big Breakfast Cookie since the Silver Palate cookbook came out, and they were a popular item in the […]

Old family recipes are little treasures, comfortable rest stops on the roadmap of a family’s history.   Since I’ve been writing this blog I’ve been receiving family recipes from friends and followers of the site and it’s been amazingly consistent: every recipe I’ve tried has been better than good.  It seems there is a universality about family recipes, no matter the background or means or region, everybody’s got one, and there’s a reason they keep handing it down from generation to […]