half-baked

This weekend we experienced temperatures in the three-digit range, and it wasn’t pretty. I was pretty much forced to make these. It was (and still is, really) way too hot to turn on the oven. You understand.

I’ve seen them floating around various healthy living blogs recently and, well, I couldn’t wait any longer. And I wasn’t sorry. Ryan and I are now pretty much addicted to these little beauties.

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hypothetically speaking

Let’s say you’ve been a casual runner for years, and decide it’s time to get competitive.

Let’s say you happily start training for a series of races, and all is well for about a month, and then you twist your ankle.

Let’s say your job puts you on your feet about 99.99% of the workday, which pretty much exhausts the amount of time you should really be stressing that ankle, limiting home-baking time to pretty much zero. Let’s say you need to squeeze things like boiling corn for dinner and chopping zillions of tiny vegetables for lunch into your limited kitchen time. Just go with me here.

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vegan everything cookies

Before moving to Utah, I dreamed of living in a real-life city with a real-life Whole Foods. It’s still hard for me to believe that there are no less than four within a thirty-mile radius of my house. I frequent the one nearest me about once a week, sometimes just for fun.

I’ve become addicted to Whole Foods’ Vegan Everything Cookies. They are now, hands down, my favorite cookie, which is saying something. I’ve eaten a lot of cookies in my day.

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chocolate cherry hazelnut crinkles

Hi friends! We just returned from a lovely long weekend at home, where we watched my “little” sister graduate from high school. Time flies when you’re having fun, or something like that.

But before we left, I baked some ridiculous cookies. I found this dark chocolate bark with cherries and hazelnuts at Whole Foods, and I really couldn’t leave it there. It was calling me. So I chopped it up and made cookies.

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craving cookies

Sunday night I had a serious craving for cookies. It was quite a week and what can I say? Some cravings just won’t be denied.

I may have thrown pretty much everything I could think of into the mixing bowl. I’m not going to lie, I contemplated adding both cereal and marshmallows. It wasn’t exactly my finest hour.

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