Brush up your Play-Doh skills, everyone! Because we’re baking Rainbow Pinwheel Cookies on the blog today. Colors are a big theme in The Things She's Seen. Beth sees beautiful, beckoning colors that she knows she should go toward ("the afterlife"), and Catching and Crow have "the colors" viciously torn out of them by the Feed. The concept of colors represents SO much in this incredible novel -- hope, strength, happiness, peace -- that I knew...
These Macadamia Nut Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies are my go-to chocolate chip cookie. Picking your favorite chocolate chip cookie is like picking a mate: everyone has their unique personal preferences. Some people like their cookies thin and crispy; others like them thick and overloaded with chips. Certain people (ahem, me) even prefer chipless chocolate chip cookies. The variations can go on and on. But...when you find THE ONE.... When you find...
Lavender Honey Cookies are my ode to the small bits of loveliness found in Lying in Wait. There’s so much that’s ugly in this book that it’s a surprise when you stumble upon something beautiful, which can range from the simple, like pretty lace curtains hanging in the window of a drab, grey house, to the more complex, like a happy relationship between two suffering people. Or, y'know...a lovely garden in the back of a manor house...with a...
