You can’t pull the wool over a child’s eyes.  They know when they’re being snookered.  When my son David was 9 or 10, I made a chocolate cake for his birthday.  I wanted a moist, dense cake so I added a little grated zucchini.  Now David was not a fan of zucchini.  (I could use [...]

My mother and grandmother never made chocolate chip cookies.  Come to think of it, they rarely baked cookies .  They preferred to make pies and cakes. Occasionally Nanny Fanny made sugar cookies using leftover pie dough. She stamped out the cookies with a small glass – she never bothered with cookie cutters  (or even measuring [...]