Sharing stories of food stories we love.
Chocolate chip cookies are already pretty good to begin with. Add in a few handfuls of snack-like ingredients for crunch and chew, and they get even better.
I don't remember eating a plain chocolate chip cookie very often growing up -- this is the version I know and love. The cookie dough of this recipe is exceptional, and you should be warned that it's almost impossible to stop eating once you sneak a spoonful.
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Breakfast has never been my thing, but breakfast foods: yes please. If there is anything better than a slice of toast, slathered with just melting butter, I don’t know what it is. One of my favorite ways to eat toast is this: lightly toasted bread, a very thin layer of salted butter followed by a thin layer of honey, sprinkled with wheat germ.
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How did vanilla get such a bad rap? I don't know how it came to mean "bland" or "boring", when done correctly, it is exotic and floral and sweet, rivaling the intensity of chocolate or fruit.
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When's the last time you read something - a book, an essay, lyrics - that caught you off guard? I read with such intense voracity since I learned how in kindergarten, and in high school it felt like every week I came across something that I couldn't stop thinking about, or talking about, or re-writing across lined notebook paper, heavily shading in my favorite words. It doesn't happen as much. I don't read enough, but things like this poem make me want to open the floodgates again.
So here's what is filling my head lately: Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke with You". I first heard it at a wedding (is there a more perfect articulation of being in love with someone?), and if I were seventeen still, I can guarantee it would be penciled over and over again in every binder I owned.
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This cake is improbably delicious. At first glance -- well, at first glance it looked good enough that I wanted to dive into the magazine page and take a bite. At second glance -- and upon reading the recipe -- I was confused about the texture. It has over a cup of ricotta cheese and 3 eggs, so is it a cheesecake? But it has over a cup of flour and butter, like a regular yellow cake.
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