It looks like both Amanda and Merrill are fans of lemon vinaigrette these days (A for her kids and M for weeknight meals with her husband -- Clara's still too small for such things). Here, Amanda explains how she actually prefers salads to sandwiches for Walker's and Addie's lunch: "I'm trying to make my kids more all-in-one salads like this tuna couscous salad. They're easy for my kids to eat -- actually easier than a sandwich -- and you can pile in lots of good flavors. Here, I blended oil-packed tuna, Israeli couscous, haricots verts, olives, capers, sliced baby garlic, and a lemon vinaigrette. Then for some crunch, I packed a few carrot sticks. And for a treat, a slice of City Bakery's mammoth chocolate chip cookies." What's in your lunchbox?
Lots of green in Walker and Addie's lunches these days. Amanda describes one of her warm-weather standards: My springtime cheat: artichokes, asparagus, and peas. I use frozen artichoke hearts and peas, mix them in a saucepan with lots of olive oil, thyme, a smashed garlic clove, and salt, then cook them, covered, over medium high heat, just until heated through and any liquid is cooked off. Then I take the lid off, let them cool until just warm, and fold in thinly sliced asparagus. It stays a little crunchy, which I like. I make a bunch and keep this in the fridge all week, adding lemon juice or sherry vinegar, plus more oil, when serving. Here, I paired it with Moonlight Chaource from The Amazing Real Live Food Co., and triple chocolate espresso cookies for dessert.
Jenny finds a cookie to win the whole family over.
Macaroons go punk rock.
Ready... set... bake! We reached back to 2009 in our video archives and unearthed this vintage cookie classic. The race is on!
Watch A&M make a sweet-savory, 5-ingredient ode to the thumbprint cookie.
Amanda introduces us to springerles, a biscotti-like biscuit with an odd-ball technique.
A&M are thoroughly wowed by special guest Chef Karen DeMasco's skilled cookie-making, as they whip up one of the contenders for Your Best Chewy Sugar Cookie.
A&M are joined by James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Karen DeMasco in their quest to find the chewiest of sugar cookies (and make Chris Kimball eat his words).
A&M make one of the macaroon finalists and Amanda shares piping tricks from her days spent working at a Swiss patisserie.
We weren't able to make a video this week, so we thought it was the perfect time to show you this video, which we made when we were just starting out.
Watch Amanda and Merrill go head to head in a race to make the two finalist recipes from this week's Your Best Chocolate Cookie Recipe contest. Who will win -- and at what cost?
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