2014 Happy Valentines Day!

2014 Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Wishing all of those who read and visit my Bebe Love Okazu blog , my family and friends, a heartfelt and happy February 14th! For me, Valentine’s Day isn’t just about sweet nothings for your partner, but about remembering the love and friendship in my life and appreciating what I have. ♥ This morning Bebe woke us up and we wished her a Happy Valentine’s Day. ♥ I missed a phone call from my...

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Spooky Spider Cookies

Spooky Spider Cookies

This weekend was full of Halloween costume parades, parties and festivities. It was definitely a busy weekend, but these are most certainly good times! As a fun craft / cooking activity for Bebe, we made these really easy spooky spider cookies. Sure, you can make your own cookies from scratch for assembling equally spooky and yummy “spiders” but let’s just say this Mama is OK taking a huge short-cut, HUGE, and be completely OK...

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Pearl in a Clam Cookies

Pearl in a Clam Cookies

As promised in my last post, this is the second of two desserts from Bebe’s little pool party with her cousins. Along with the “fish-outta-water” jello cups, Bebe and Nene had fun making these little “clams” with pearl cookies. I saw a number of different cookies used to create the “clam shells” but I chose Nilla Waffers since they’re a favorite of Bebe’s. The “pearls” are yogurt...

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Chewy Sugar Cookies

Chewy Sugar Cookies

Although I don’t make multi-batches of seven different types of cookies anymore as holiday gifts, one new tradition that I enjoy is baking cookies for Santa with Bebe E. That is, just one type of cookie for Santa. :) Last year, we tried a sugar cookie recipe which I will share another day, but it was a classic recipe but I much prefer this chewy sugar cookie recipe that I share with you today. It’s definitely a new favorite! The...

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Oreo Turkey Cookies

Oreo Turkey Cookies

As Chick Hearn would say, “This game’s in the refrigerator! The door’s closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter’s getting hard, and the Jell-O is jiggling….” I’m not exactly referring to Saturday night’s Lakers game where we beat Dallas (YAY – although I don’t want to talk about Tuesday night’s 2-point loss against Indiana) but with the exception of some...

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Smores Cookies

Smores Cookies

I’m not the baker that I once was, at least in the sense that I don’t bake as often as I did in my 20’s. Yet, when I come across a mouth-watering photo on Facebook or Instagram of a melting piece of Hershey’s chocolate bar sitting atop a mound of chocolate chip cookie dough resting on top of a piece of graham cracker… I quickly decide that I AM indeed a baker. Fortunately, the timing for which I came across a...

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This week has been a really busy week so I’m going to keep this post short and sweet. When I first started my food blog, it was really a vehicle for me to archive our family’s recipes and create a life journal of sorts for my Bebe to one day enjoy. Out of my curiosity for good food, I joined a food blog community and I met a few really great people that I’ve mentioned on my blog in the past. One of my favorite food blogs is...

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Dried Cranberry & Yogurt Chip Cookies

Dried Cranberry & Yogurt Chip Cookies

This recipe post is related to my chocolate chip cookie post in that it uses the same Ghiradelli cookie dough recipe. I just substituted chocolate chips with dried cranberries and yogurt chips. Chocolate chips are occassionally processed on equipment which also processes peanuts or other tree nuts and I thought that using yogurt chips (which the label indicated were not processed on equipment associated with peanuts) would be a good alternative...

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