You guys. I have a problem. I can’t stop buying cookbooks.
I went into the bookstore the other day to pick up a cookbook for my mom (Cook’s Illustrated’s The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook) and to check out another (Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist), and I came out with my mom’s cookbook plus Cooking Together, a Williams-Sonoma cookbook for kids. (I couldn't find Bread and Wine, but also came out with four children’s classics and Domino: The Book of Decorating, but these purchases are a story for another time.)
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I mentioned last week, or maybe it was the week before, that we were going to be doing a fair amount of cooking out of The Disney Princess Cookbook in the near future. Cue the falling on the floor laughter.
Are you still here? It’s ok if you are. I won’t call the hipster police. I know what we are about to talk about is completely ridiculous. And I’m sure there are better options for kids’ cookbooks. In fact, I have a few kids’ cookbooks in my arsenal already that are probably better for a lot of reasons. But sometimes it is all about the packaging. Let me tell you something. This book has got my youngest kids excited about eating and cooking.
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There is a bakery in the Pike Place Market in Seattle that makes the most amazing pumpkin cookies. These cookies are monsters – bigger than my hand – and taste like the top of the softest muffin. I love them. When I worked in downtown Seattle a thousand years ago, I would sometimes walk over to the market during the middle of the day for a cookie break. Or I would walk past the bakery on my way home from work to pick up a cookie for dinner. Ah, the single days when a monster sized cookie for dinner was not only appropriate but normal.
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I am not a party person. I get it honestly. Ask any of the women in my family to a party and I guarantee that they will all have something else to do that probably involves cleaning the gutters or washing the dishes or jumping off a cliff so as to avoid said party.
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I know, I know. I have been a horrible blogger of late. All this cooking and living has given me no time to write or photograph food, and as we all know, it’s the writing and the photography that is really important.
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I like baked goods. Not just sort of like, I really like baked goods. It's kind of a good thing that I'm not the best baker in the world. I would be 200 pounds. I am not above making something sweet and tasty that has a little bit of healthy in it also. These raspberry bars totally fit the bill. I have now made these raspberry bars twice and will be putting them in regular rotation.
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