Pi Day
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Food on Sunday, March 14, 2010
Today is Pi Day, when Math nerds around the world celebrate their favorite Mathematical constant.
It’s also Einstein’s birthday, so a big day for Science lovers as well.
I barely recall how to multiply and divide, but I do love this amazing collection of “science cookies.”
See these, too—also on the nuclear theme.
Any Pi lovers out there?
Confection Affections
Posted by Danielle Bean in Food on Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Have you begun your Christmas baking yet?
I have done ... exactly none so far.
This is not like me. I usually enjoy spending my Advent filling my freezer with a beautiful assortment of special cookies and candies for Christmas gifts and entertaining.
But I’m always lecturing other moms about accepting their season in life and I suppose it’s time I took my own advice.
Right now my motherhood seems... READ MORE
Double Stuff Theology
Posted by Robyn Lee in Faith on Wednesday, November 18, 2009
I teach confirmation prep to ninth graders at my local parish. The confirmation requirement for the students is to meet for an hour twice a month: once in a classroom with me and the other hour in homes with their peers. I don’t love the model, but that is why I decided to become a teacher. Instead of complaining about the system and doing nothing, I joined the system so I could influence those 25... READ MORE
Conventional Oven
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Today, I took advantage of the chilly, rainy weather and spent the afternoon baking. I made several loaves of pumpkin bread and a batch of chocolate chip cookies.
For both of these items I have a recipe I normally use, and today for some strange reason I tried new recipes for both. Boy was that a mistake!
The cookies weren’t too bad. I used the recipe off the bag of my Ghiradelli chips, different... READ MORE
Feast of the Archangels
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Reader Cyndi sent along this photo of the adorable cookies she baked for today’s feast along with this note:
Thank you for post last year - “Feast of the Archangels: How will you celebrate?” I made sure to make the day special this year for my son, Gabriel Augustine. Just by coincidence, our home parish and school is St. Michael the Archangel. So, I made a bunch of cookies for him to take to school for a treat and I printed off the archangel coloring pages for the teacher to pass out.
Nice job, Cyndi! Here are the Litany to the Holy Angels and the Archangel coloring pages to assist others in their celebrations today.
Toast Those Oats!
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Food on Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Something about this time of year makes me want to bake cookies.
(Until a few weeks from now, anyway, when we go apple picking and I start wanting to bake apple crisp!)
I like oatmeal cookies because the oats give them a more substance than chocolate chip or sugar cookies, and I enjoy them even more with dried fruit and nuts in them. It’s almost like eating sweetened granola in the form of a disc... READ MORE
Just for the Fun of It
Posted by Danielle Bean in Food on Friday, July 17, 2009
Part of the fun we’ve been having here while the kids and I are visiting my sister in Connecticut has been ... creative baking!
I love to make fun cookies and cupcakes, but the truth is, I never seem to have much time for it anymore.
When I first saw this recipe for adorable watermelon cookies last month, I decided I would make them for the Fourth of July ... didn’t happen.
So then I decided I would... READ MORE
The Cookies Are Ready
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Sunday, February 01, 2009
What are you and your family doing this afternoon?
Will you be watching the Super Bowl?
Girl Scout Cookie Cut Backs
Posted by Danielle Bean in Food on Wednesday, January 28, 2009
It’s Girl Scout cookie season!
I recently read that increasing food and transportation prices means cookie cutbacks will be implemented for this year’s sale.
“As the cost of baking and transporting the group’s famous sweets shoots through the roof, the Girl Scouts of the USA has decided to package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos and Tagalongs and to shrink the Lemon Chalet Creme cookies.”
Will the economy affect your cookie decision-making? Will you hesitate to fill your freezer with Thin Mints this year?
Stained Glass Cookies
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Food on Monday, December 22, 2008
Tomorrow I am doing another round of baking with the boys. Last week’s peppermint bark and peppermint bark cookies were used for a little light snacking but mostly as gifts for neighbors. The boys keep asking when we’re going to make some treats for them to eat, and I figured the closer to Christmas we baked the better off we’d be.
This evening, as I was working on my Christmas Day menu, I came across these precious/very cool little cookies that look quite simple to make. Also, the recipe involves crushing things (lifesavers) which my household will love as much as the cookies themselves.
Enjoy these days before the celebrations begin!
