Chapstick Cookies
Unappealing title, huh?1 Luckily, though chapstick is a key ingredient in this cookie recipe, no chapstick actually goes into the cookies. Butter, flour, almond, sugar, and jam make these bite-sized shortbread cookies lip smackingly good. Chapstick Cookies2 INGREDIENTS: 1 cup butter, softened 2/3 cup white sugar 1/2 tsp almond extract 2 cups flour3 1/2 cup jam (I used strawberry, but any flavor would be delicious.) a sprinkling of confectioner’s sugar Preheat your oven to 350°F (180°C). If you have a convection (fan) oven, preheat...
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Whenever I visit a new city, one of my favorite pastimes is photographing stained glass in every church and cathedral I can find. Not the usual, “this is a really big wall of glass and look at all the beautiful colors” photos, but photos of the intricate details that are easily missed when taking in the window as a whole. Why do I do this? Sometimes to find inspiration for my own illustrations. Sometimes because I love the stories the glass portraits tell. Sometimes because they make me laugh. And sometimes, simply because I like...
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This all started because I had too much feta. I know, right? Difficult to believe. The thing is, this one package of feta seemed endless. I used it in salad, with potatoes on no fewer than four occasions, I even snacked on bits of it from time to time. The feta continued. I was starting to think that I was at the beginning of a bad horror film: “The Feta that Ate Tangier!” Enough was enough. I came home from work on Monday with one objective: finish that feta! And that’s exactly what I did.1 Infinite Feta Baked...
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The weather is beginning to turn cold here (in Moroccan terms, that means it rained a little this week) so of course my thoughts turned to soup.1 Erm. I mean, I began craving soup.2 I have always loved minestrone, but it never made me giggle until I watched Green Wing for the first time. Here’s the scene in question: [jwplayer mediaid="2435"] So without further ado, I bring you minestrone-flavored minestrone. Vegetarian, vegan, relatively low-sodium,3 packed full of fresh vegetables, and utterly delicious. Minestrone-y...
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“I want hummus.” You know how many times I heard this from a friend over the course of a single week? I don’t know either, because I lost count. Neil would be over watching a movie, and suddenly: “I want hummus.” Walking through the medina: “I want hummus.” Discussing time travel: “I want hummus.” Taking self-defense lessons: “I want hummus.”1 So do you know what I did? No, I didn’t banish him from my presence, my home, and the whole of Africa. I made hummus. Hummus for...
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