Part II: Bless Us O Lord

Over Labor Day weekend we had a family gathering at our house and my brother John promised he would bring his latest culinary inventio...

. My family has, in the past, enjoyed quite a few of the cookies that start selling around this time of year by the Girl Scouts. This ye...

Way back in mid-December, I made up care packages for my two favorite seminarians at the Josephinum up the road from us. One is my son'...

. The kitchen in my home may be feeling a little neglected these days. I think it's mostly due to Advent getting away from me, but may ...

. The Brown-Eyed Baker posted the recipe for the famed "Nieman Marcus" Chocolate Chip Cookie this week and she got me thinking ab...

. Margaret , a very dear long-distance friend, recently sent me a lovely cookbook for my birthday. I have said before that "collect...

. Yesterday afternoon I put some Chocolate Banana Bread in the oven, and then I asked the kids what kind of cookies they wanted. One said C...

. I'm a nut for coconut. So much so, that I'm not even going to apologize for that awful play on words. I can remember loving coco...

. . This past week presented itself with the opportunity to have a couple of little celebrations with dessert, one of which was this beautif...

. This recipe is the fraternal twin of another favorite cookie in my house, Cookie Brittle . The flavor, though, is slightly different and I...

. This cookie recipe is an old standby at our house. When we want a gooey chocolate chipper, it's usually the one I turn to. They are cr...

This morning, when I realized I had not planned ahead for a treat for the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, I went hunting on the Internet for ...

. In all my years of parenting (o.k., I'm not a grandma, but I have raised one to adulthood), I have never used a cookie jar. Gasp! In f...