Super Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies That Vaguely Resemble Brownies

So in the grand scheme of Putting Things Off Until After The Last Minute, I will write about pumpkin cookies now that Thanksgiving is officially over. Oops! But never fear, pumpkin items are meant to, nay demand to be enjoyed year-round, as often as possible. My initial intent was to make some pumpkin spice cookies [...]

Cheese and Potato Knishes Made With Bisquick

Once upon a time, many moons ago, I tried to make knishes. Potato and cheese filled knishes, if I remember correctly (a true comfort food if there ever was one). Now, my dough skills aren’t quite at the point I’d even call a “skill”. It’s more like I have dough unskills. And with that first [...]

Quesadillas Are Awesome

So I used to be super into grilled cheese sandwiches back in the day. Still am, mind you, but not to the extent that I was when I was, say, 9 years old. As I grew older, I started moving away from the traditional American “cheese in a plastic wrapper with white bread” versions, experimenting [...]

I can crush through marzipan (and mandalhoernchen!) like nobody’s business!

Marzipan is truly the Crushed Nut Confection Of The Gods. Not those namby-pamby American marzipan candies that are all sugary and look like fruit, either. I’m talking seriously awesome European marzipan. Yes, maybe that makes me a marzipan elitist, but I don’t care. Sometimes it’s necessary to be an elitist when certain things are significantly [...]

Picci’s Pizza (Idaho Springs Trip Part II)

In the grand historical tradition of my priorities, when writing the two parter about the delicious things found in Idaho Springs (first part found here), I of course put the dessert post first, despite the fact that, against my very nature, I managed to postpone the eating of the majority of said dessert until after [...]

Miner Decadence Chocolates (Idaho Springs Trip Part I)

Fall is an exciting time of year for those of us that happen to be lucky enough to live in an area where the leaves turn funny colors. We headed up to Idaho Springs, CO, not too long ago, where the half of the trees that are Aspens are all yellow and the half of [...]