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Cookie of the Month: Cheering for cherry rugelach

By rahoward, on February 28th, 2021

Rugelach â€” little bites of buttery, cream cheese dough rolled up with fillings (jam, fruits, chocolate and nuts) into crescent-like swirls and baked to a golden brown â€” fall somewhere between a cookie and a pastry. I was excited to run across the term â€œpastry cookieâ€ recently in my rugelach research. I was . . . → Read More: Cookie of the Month: Cheering for cherry rugelach

Cookie of the Month: Feeling the (red-hot) love via bars

By rahoward, on February 12th, 2020

It probably sounds strange that when it comes to Valentineâ€™s Day, I think of sugar cookies, not chocolate. Maybe I have holiday goodie dissociative disorder, but my Feb. 14 tastes run directly back to childhood, where, along with white embossed cherry suckers and chalky conversation hearts, there are sugar cookies, too, that I . . . → Read More: Cookie of the Month: Feeling the (red-hot) love via bars

Baked Sunday Mornings: Making whoopie pies with pumpkin

By rahoward, on November 18th, 2018

For those of us with limited experience â€” eating or baking â€” whoopie pies, we may wonder what all the fuss is about. Sure, they look terribly inviting â€” plump-soft cookie-cakes sealed together with a creamy fillingâ€¦a whole lot to love. I had perhaps resisted in making them because they seemed too complicated or . . . → Read More: Baked Sunday Mornings: Making whoopie pies with pumpkin

Humming into being

By rahoward, on August 30th, 2015

â€œ…when you realize that you can neither write nor not write, when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching . . . → Read More: Humming into being

Building a birthday cake at both ends

By rahoward, on August 24th, 2013

â€œTell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.â€Â â€•Â Paulo Coehlo (b. 8/24), â€œThe Alchemistâ€

Who am I? . . . → Read More: Building a birthday cake at both ends

Feeding the creative muse

By rahoward, on September 8th, 2012

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child.” — Ray Bradbury, “Zen in the Art of Wrting: Essays on Creativity”

Ray Bradbury told me why I am here.

He told everyone, but only some of us were listening. I feel lucky that on that . . . → Read More: Feeding the creative muse

Bread of the month: Serving a King Cake

By rahoward, on February 21st, 2012

I came to know of King Cake because â€œI Was a Teenage Food Editor.â€ Actually, I was just a few years beyond teenage-dom when I was as the helm of a weekly food section at a Southern California newspaper, but I was certainly as inexperienced, naÃ¯ve and pimply as any teen at the time.

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