Monday, April 30, 2012  Granola Balls (Raw, gluten-free,
potentially vegan)     Granola Balls Adapted from Smashed Peas
and Carrots Prep time: 5 minutes Cost: $1.90  1/2 C peanut
butter 1/2 C chocolate chips (optional) 1 tsp vanilla   These
keep very well refrigerated or frozen.   Saturday, April 28,
2012  Lemon Doodles  I hadn't had snickerdoodles for--oh, 15
years or so. and then someone in my church gave us a few. And
all the sudden... I. Had. To. Make. Snickerdoodles. I don't know
what it is about them. They're a fairly simple cookie, and there
isn't a chocolatey chip to speak of within. Still there's
something so satisfying about biting through that crispy sugar
edge into a nice chewy cookie.  I decided to do a little recipe
testing and planned to take advantage of the innocent
participants of our Friday night singing group to use as
tasters. I made 2 different (surprisingly different) recipes--
one from Smitten Kitchen and one from Simply Recipes. I had
planned to force everyone to try the different kind