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it’s cinnaminny

They’re Mrs. Fields cinnamon sugar cookies, twice removed. A friend of mine sent me a copycat recipe she found, knowing it would be easy to veganize. Sure was. I’ve never had the original cookie so I can’t tell you how close it is, but it was crazy good. The texture is light and fluffy yet has [...]

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No, I didn’t bake these. I just put stuff on them. In the “ethnic” aisle at my local big-ass grocery store, I found these British treats, Snapjacks. They remind me of a cross between an oatmeal cookie and those old-school Nature Valley granola bars, but in the best way possible. They’re fine on their own, [...]

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shortbread

Butter, flour, sugar, salt. It’s like the guitar, bass, drums of cookies. Shortbread tells you to leave the keyboard out of it. Because of its starkness, some people find shortbread abrasive and off-putting. It’s a serious cookie, eaten slowly between sips of a hot beverage. I wouldn’t bring a plate of these to family reunion picnic—face [...]

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starting over

Wow, these cookies are so edible! What are they made out of, foodstuff? I wanted peanut butter cookies but didn’t have a recipe. The VWAV one sounded too crispy and the first couple I found on Vegweb sounded too healthy, so I headed over to Allrecipes and grabbed one that seemed like the recipe I [...]

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So there’s no red, white, and blue jello mold. No hot dogs on the grill or potato salad. But after cooking today, I did look at it and think, “That’s so American…sort of.” Dinner doesn’t get much more square than this. That is clearly a meat, starch, and a veg. The meat is my first [...]

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cookies!

I friggin’ love cookies. I often make my own. Usually it’s just cookie dough for the sake of cookie dough, which I pare down to the basics of EB/peanut butter, sugar or agave, oats, ground flax seed, and chocolate chips. I call it “kukido,” since you couldn’t actually bake it. Anyway, sometimes I get the urge at the [...]

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