Category Archives: Recipes

Banana Bread with Streusel Topping

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: March 10, 2010
The recipe is an amalgamation of two recipes. The banana bread recipe comes from here at Recipe Zaar. It uses sour cream. I already had another banana bread recipe, but I wanted to try something new. I adapted the recipe a bit to include chocolate chips. And because there were a lot of nuts in [...]
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Coconut Chip Cookies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: February 18, 2010
These are adapted from a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe in The Colossal Cookie Cookbook. I was basically going for something kind of like my Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookie Mix Cookies without the oatmeal. I still like my cookie mix cookies better, I suppose because I’m a big fan of oatmeal, but these were [...]
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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 (like, 10 minutes on Google). I just wanted plain, thin, and buttery oatmeal cookies. I finally adapted a Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies recipe from All Recipes, and in the end it worked pretty well. I ended up [...]
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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. And that made me want to bake blondies. 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 [...]
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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 quick, [...]
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Banana Bread with Walnuts and Chocolate Chips

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: December 31, 2009
I still haven’t discovered anything worth putting on a good banana bread. Butter, peanut butter, Nutella–all of these fail to improve upon that which is perfect. Although I have found that Banana Bread is a good bread for French Toast, even if it is a quick bread without all that fancy yeast. I’ve seen others [...]
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: December 19, 2009
Here’s the original recipe from Recipe Zaar, which is apparently taken from the Toronto Star, and they apparently got it from… Barbara Bush. Say what you will about the 43rd president of the United States–his mom makes a pretty darn good oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. To the recipe I added ground up white chocolate (using a [...]
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Chocolate Chip Cookies (using cream of tartar)

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: December 11, 2009
I got this Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe from a blog called A Pookie Pantry. It appears to be this AllRecipes version, but with the addition of cream of tartar to the cookies. I bought the cream of tartar for like three bucks then realized that I only needed about 1/4 teaspoon AND the original recipe [...]
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookie Mix Cookies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: December 5, 2009
The title of this post is the hardest thing about making these cookies. The recipe is easy because there is very little measuring. I basically played with the measurements of the ingredients, and added coconut and more chocolate chips. I increased the butter a bit too, to help with the added volume. The original recipe on [...]
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Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: November 26, 2009
I like cookies soft, and most Peanut Butter Cookies do not fulfill this criteria. Too much peanut butter seems to mess up the consistency… yet the actual taste of peanut butter is so good. These cookies are my solution. The taste of peanut butter is not overpowering; there are only three tablespoons of it in [...]
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