The Crabby Cook - by Jessica Harper

Okay, I’m invited back to the Christmas cookie swap party I went to last year, and I’m finding that my anxiety level about which recipe to cook up for the event has decreased in 2009. This is because I have, in my pocket, a fab recipe for almond logs, which is my golden ticket.

I will also note that this cookie party could never be thrown by employees of Goldman Sachs. I just heard that G.S. has told its employees they are not allowed to host holiday parties for more than twelve people, lest they further irritate the already livid mob who are sick of seeing the G.S.-ers getting and spending lavish bonuses and otherwise whooping it up. Read More

I’m having a cookie crisis.

Next week is, of course, the week when every Christmas-oriented cook in America will bake cookies like a madman.

I was invited to a cookie exchange party, a luncheon to which you bring home-baked holiday cookies, and then everyone gets to take home some of the other guests’ goods.  I love this idea, so festive and holiday-ish, so I signed right up. It’s just dawned on me that now I have to bake cookies, which is something I never do except when my children are having a chocolate chip emergency. Read More