Carrie Saum

Soothing warmth from the inside out to help ease your aches and pains, help you rest, and stop coughing.

This is becoming an expensive habit, but nothing really says “I love you” like homemade cookies, so I’m going with it.

We are in the midst of buying a house.

In the spirit of melted chocolate and simple, decadent expressions of love, I made a little treat for my friends.

The result was a gorgeous, decadent, crispy-edged-and-soft-in-the-middle caramelized cookie skillet straight from heaven. It filled our entire building with sweet almond and fig baked goodness.

Nothing says fall to me like a pumpkin treat, and I love the combination of cloud-like cookies and frosting. It’s like an Oreo and a birthday cake had a baby during pumpkin spice season and created a true joy of autumnal desserts.

This is the thing about cooking for the internet: It only wants sweet treats. Okay, and cauliflower recipes.

Thin Mints are my favorite. They’ve ALWAYS been my favorite. I would hide a sleeve in our freezer as a kid, and wait for my brothers to leave the house so I could eat them in peace. As an adult, not much has changed. I look forward to that time of year when Girl Scout cookies make winter doldrums bright again.

In an age where we are isolated but still technologically connected, this is important. It’s okay to be alone. It’s okay to be unoccupied.

I said it. The thing moms are never ever supposed to say. I NEED MORE.