'Baker's Best' cookie contest tomorrow

Local seniors who think they have a winning cookie recipe are invited to compete in the Humboldt Senior Resource Center's yearly “Baker's Best Cookie Contest” tomorrow at 10:30 a.

Diets for Dessert Gottahaveits

Even if you’re watching your weight, there’s room for a cookie here and ice-cream sundae there.

Cicero: Hawaiian bread, with and without oatmeal

Nancy Marino asked for help finding a lost recipe for Hawaiian bread made with coconut and pineapple, which she thought might have come from the label on a container of oats. Lucy Bryant sent the recipe here, from 3-Minute brand oats.

Back to reality: Time to focus on real food, weeknight meals

The house is quiet. Guests are gone. The cookies are gone, too. The chocolate and candy holiday gifts have been packed up and taken to work to lure anyone passing by the coffeemaker. Back to real dinners without dessert. For quite a few weeks, the kitchen counter looked like a bakery shop, with slices of cake and goodies wrapped and sitting there calling me. It seemed like every time I went in ...

Dinner Tonight: Queen's Supreme

When you think of a sandwich, you probably think about grabbing some deli meat out of the fridge and slapping it on a couple of pieces of bread. But Kathy Queen is more ambitious. Her Queen’s Supreme sandwich requires caramelizing onions and cooking beef together with garlic and red wine. Sounds great already, doesn’t it? Ms. Queen’s husband and daughter created it about 20 years ago, and it was ...