Monthly Archives: January 2010

Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies (thin and buttery)

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 25, 2010
It took me a surprisingly long time to find an oatmeal cookie recipe that I wanted to try (about 10 minutes, which is practically forever if we’re talking about “Google time”). I just wanted plain, thin, and buttery oatmeal cookies. I finally adapted a Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies recipe from All Recipes, and in [...]
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Simple Blondies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 20, 2010
I mentioned in my Simple Brownies post that I was more of a blondie man than a brownie man. Thus, a blondie recipe. This blondie recipe is simple and pretty much impossible to screw up. I don’t really try other blondie recipes (much), because this is all you need. It’s from Smitten Kitchen‘s blondies. If [...]
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Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Real-Life Trial by Combat

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 19, 2010
I’m studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat… in 1817. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is really interesting it will probably never make it into my paper. Anyways: The Ashford [...]
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Simple Brownies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 11, 2010
I am more of a blondie man than a brownie man, myself, but my girlfriend likes brownies. So here are some brownies. I got this brownie recipe from Cookie Madness. My criteria when searching for this recipe was that it had to use an 8×8 or 9×9 pan, it had to be relatively simple or [...]
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