Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip and Pecan Cookies
I really wanted to bake today. I don’t know whether it was because I was in a slightly contrary mood, since everyone I know is trying to cut back on sweets, or whether I wanted to use finally use pecans in something in other than pecan pie. But I decided to make not one, but two recipes from cooking light that met my qualifications for recipes that were 1) dessert and 2) used pecans.
Banana-Pecan Biscotti
Blackberry Crumb Cake
Now that it’s basically berry season, I can bake my favorite go to “bbq/party/I have to bring SOMETHING” dessert contribution. It’s a pretty simple recipe, and a pretty good crowd pleaser as well. I baked two cakes for one of the bbq’s my friends throw at our old stomping grounds…and before dinner even came off the grill, one of my three plates of cake was demolished. And seriously, who doesn’t like a good crumb cake?
The New Normal, an agenda for responsible living - David Wann
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke - Suze Orman
Crude World, The Violent Twilight of Oil - Peter Maass
The Country Cooking of Ireland
Many articles and books for grad school :)
