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Sweet & Salty Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sweet & Salty Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies by Laura Tabacca

This is my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe, despite my complete willingness to flirt with other recipes. Based on King Arthur's Triple Play Peanut Butter Cookies, it is seriously peanutty, which I appreciate, and the sprinkled grey sea salt on top elevates it to new heights. Thick and chewy and just downright delicious.

8 votes
6254 views
Aloo Kaanda Bhajee (Potatoes In Sweet Onion Sauce)

Aloo Kaanda Bhajee (Potatoes In Sweet Onion Sauce) by Laura Tabacca

Adapted from Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries, this potato curry makes the perfect accompaniment to any Indian protein dish. Creamy, spicy, delicious. See more photos at http://thespicedlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/aloo-kaanda-bhajee-potatoes-in-sweet.html

2 votes
2823 views
Salty Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Salty Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies by Laura Tabacca

Salty Chocolate Oatmeal CookiesThese are the cookies to reach for when you cannot decide between the Chocolate Sugar Cookies and the Salty Chocolate Chocolate Chip Oat Cookies. Their texture, thin and chewy, resembles the sugar cookies, with the salt and oats of the latter cookie. I love all 3 and do not regret making any of them,…

3 votes
1579 views
Family Recipes: Butter Crunch 2 Ways

Family Recipes: Butter Crunch 2 Ways by Laura Tabacca

When John and I first moved in together, he made it clear to me that the holidays were not the holidays without his mom’s special holiday Butter Crunch. He backed this assertion up by making it himself, a fact which is only shocking in light of the fact that he never bakes or makes sweets, he only cooks alone when I am absent, and he…

3 votes
2492 views
Chickpeas Stewed With Chorizo

Chickpeas Stewed With Chorizo by Laura Tabacca

I am staring at one of the photos of this stew as I type, trying to decide between posting a correctly cropped photo and a more nicely edited photo. You see, I have finally updated my photo “developing” software, and right now I am teaching myself Light Room. It is eons more sophisticated–and complicated!–than what I was previously…

2 votes
1606 views
Think Outside The Box: Double Chocolate Chip Mint Teff Cookies

Think Outside The Box: Double Chocolate Chip Mint Teff Cookies by Laura Tabacca

Some of you have heard me rave about teff before. The world’s tiniest grain (teff means “lost” in Arhamic, which they speak (I think) in Ethiopia) and one of the primary grains used in Africa, one handful of it can sow a very large field–which makes it…

2 votes
2556 views
Shrimp Clemenceau

Shrimp Clemenceau by Laura Tabacca

New Orleans is one of my top 2 favorite food cities of all time (if you’re wondering, Boston is the other). Not a unique choice, I realize, but I have family down there and have spent some time in the city–plus, let’s face it popular foodie destinations are usually popular for a reason. And the best part is that you have an amazing…

2 votes
1638 views
Salty Ancho Peanut Butter Cookies

Salty Ancho Peanut Butter Cookies by Laura Tabacca

I got the idea for these cookies from the Rogue Bakery, a homemade, home-delivered cookie bakery in Columbus and Cleveland. I actually have not tried their spicy peanut butter cookies, but when I heard the owner/baker say ancho and peanut butter in the same tweet, I was instantly intrigued. (For what it’s worth, I have tried other…

2 votes
1225 views
Meyer Lemon Thins

Meyer Lemon Thins by Laura Tabacca

I am not sure I have given Alice Medrich’s Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt In Your Mouth Cookies a proper review. I’ve now made 5 cookies from it: these, Extra Chocolatey Biscotti (they did not make it on to the blog because of traveling, but I hope to feature them soon), “Hawaiian” Wedding Cookies, Chocolate Mint Sandwiches, and…

2 votes
1591 views
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Butterfly Cake

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Butterfly Cake by Laura Tabacca

The next few posts are full of delicious food with lousy photos. For whatever reasons, lately it feels like it’s all I can do to grab a few very much not staged shots before we dig in. And not staged means you can see computers, pepper grinders, random cookbooks, phones, keyboards, hands, you name it peeking in the corners of the…

2 votes
1820 views