the benefits of unemployment

At my ex-employer's cafeteria there were many basic options for cookie consumers; chocolate chip, peanut butter, white chocolate macadamia, chocolate chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, and sugar.

It is a perfectly acceptable list aside from the fact that they did not have M&M cookies. And M&M cookies are really excellent.


Luckily, now I am not limited by an employer's work hours and cookie choices and I can venture to acquire any cookie in the city whenever I choose.

Me and my unemployment cookie took in the end of another deskless day.

new to new york

I was welcomed to New York with a quintessential New York City cookie.


but it was really a black and white cupcake,

because New York is magical like that.

Or at least this ceiling is.

garden of eatin'

I have a pretty unimpressive track record with plant care. I have had a cactus die on my watch, unknowingly misted flowers with spray-on sunscreen, and given a begonia heat exhaustion by placing it atop a radiator. A green thumb I do not have, but it is fit for baking.

Thumbprints with a lemon white chocolate filling.
I'd be a far more successful gardener if cookies were plants...

build me up cookiecup

Everyone is jumping on the cupcake train these days...even cookies.

Found this peanut butter and chocolate gem at Allegro Hearth.

A doughy center PLUS frosting, life is good.

got me looking so Craisin love

I think I would like to go to the Ocean Spray cranberry bog, as featured in harvesting commercials. It seems like a fun adventure to wade amongst cranberries and I am incredibly fond of Craisins.

As I was snacking on handfuls of Craisins the other day, I noticed a recipe for Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies on the back of the bag and decided it was time to eat some more Craisins bake some cookies.