Get out the sprinkles, baby! Here's my long-time best recipe for rolled sugar cookies, made from scratch, sturdy enough for decorating, tender enough to eat. The all-butter dough is easy to handle, requires no refrigeration before rolling out and holds its shape during baking. Best of all, these homemade cookies smell and taste good, thanks to a heady blend of vanilla and almond extracts. Plus if you're in a rush, no problem, mix and bake an entire batch start to finish in just an hour, all ready for decorating , whether it's for Christmas, Valentines' Day, Easter, Halloween or my own claim to fame, family birthdays. Oh, the big smiles that happen whenever old-fashioned hand-decorated sugar cookies appear! And not just from kids! Just-Baked & Family-Tested. Fast & Flexible. Rolled in Powdered Sugar. Fun for Kids, Fun with Kids for Cookie Decorating Projects. Tender Enough to Eat, Sturdy Enough to Hold Kid-Heavy Frosting. Potluck & Party Friendly.

Who else knows that some times, often even, only a lemon cookie will do? I've been looking for "my" lemon cookie recipe for a few years now but finally, I've found it! Lemon Crinkle Cookies are so bright and lemony, really charged with lemon flavor. And they have that much-coveted chewy texture too. If you've got a couple of lemons on hand, in a few hours, you'll understand exactly why these just aren't your everyday homemade cookies. Join me in Lemon Heaven, anyone? Bright Lemony Cookies, Little Effort, Big Reward. Budget Friendly Calling for Common Pantry Ingredients (Plus Poppy Seeds). What're you waiting for?! So Good!!

Italian Fish & Seafood Stew A Lazy Man's Ciopinno, it's seafood stew packed with fresh fish and fresh shrimp, all hovering in a light tomato-y broth. For those of us who live far from saltwater and a waterside fish market, it's a seafood-lovers's dream. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ COMPLIMENTS! "I made this ... with haddock and king prawns. It was fantastic!" ~ Craig Add yours, leave a comment, below! BEST RECIPES! Lazy Man's Ciopinno Made the List! Best Recipes of 2003 Communal Stew Pots to High-End Restaurants So we've seen pictures of those big bowls of seafood stew at restaurants, right, especially along the Pacific and Mediterranean coasts? Ciopinno is a sight to be seen, an outright seafood spectacle: broth-filled bowls overflowing with fresh mussels and fresh clams cracked open, crab legs hanging over the side. That's ciopinno [pronounced, at least to my American ear, tchee-uh-PEEN-yo] and the name j...