Lemon Snowdrop Cookies

Have you ever noticed there's a camaraderie among lemon lovers? It's not that way with chocolate lovers or any-other-kind-of-food lovers. Could it be that people assume everybody loves chocolate so there's no need to band together? I'm not exactly sure what it is but I know that lemon lovers love to share great lemon recipes [...]

New York-Style Crumb Cake

Speaking of my tried and true home recipes... here is a family (and friends) favorite I've made a zillion times, that comes from The Foster's Market Cookbook, a wonderful book by Sara Foster who owns Foster's Markets, two café takeout shops in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Most of the pages in my own copy are [...]

Wookie Cookies

A crazy name for a cookie that's so good, you'll wonder where it's been all your life. Don't let the ingredients fool you as the end result is nothing short of ... wow! If the flavor of these isn't a great enough reason to try them...and oh how it is... the texture puts the whole [...]

Cinnamon Comfort Rolls aka ‘Clone of a Cinnabon’

No. These are not good for you. Nooo redeemable nutritional value whatsoever. A warm from the oven, caramelized brown sugary, buttery, cinnamon-y tasting, ooey-gooey frosted treat like this is not for a weekday morning if you're on a stick-to-my-clean eating-all-days-but-take-a-break-on-Sunday plan. So... let's go with Sunday! I originally got this recipe off of a food [...]