World of Julie

Another birthday, just like that, and Zuzu is 3! For months — months! — she has been requesting cherry-related items for her birthday. We all laughed about it until about a month ago, when I realized I’d better do something. Alas, I never did find the requested cherry horse, cherry house, cherry car, or cherry [...]

Posted on June 14th, 2011 under Zuzu. Tags: adriane, adriane herman, birthday, cherry, chocolate, cupcakes, frosting, Zuzu. Comments: 6

So, with all my random food issues these days (well, not my food issues, but the ones that are mine as a nursing mother), a book called Raw Energy by Stephanie Tourles caught my eye at the library. It’s a book of raw food recipes (snacks, mainly), and since raw food by definition can’t include [...]

Posted on March 30th, 2011 under Food. Tags: almond butter, carob, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, Food, maple, maple syrup, nutmeg, pecans, raisins, raw, raw energy, raw food, snacks, stephanie tourles, vegan chocolate pudding. Comments: 4

Quintessential Zu: chocolate all over her face, boy sweater, hat, necklace. Also the hat nicely shows off the That Girl flip she gets going most days: addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D2801′; addthis_title = ‘Your+Weekly+Zuzu’; addthis_pub = ”;

Posted on April 8th, 2010 under Zuzu. Tags: chocolate, hair, hat, Zuzu. Comments: 3

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Posted on December 21st, 2009 under baking, holidays. Tags: baking, charlie brown christmas, chocolate, cookies, holidays. Comments: 6

Let me just take a super quick break from my giant research paper to report some important cookie news. I picked up a bag of Limited Edition Nestle Tollhouse Dark Chocolate and Mint Morsels (I got them at Target), and I’m here to report to you that the cookie recipe on the back of the [...]

Posted on December 15th, 2009 under baking. Tags: chocolate, cookies, dark chocolate, double dutch dark cocoa, girl scout, king arthur flour, mint, thin mints, tollhouse. Comments: 2

These are my new favorite Birthday Present cookies (based solely on the fact that I’ve given them to both Scott and Stacey on their birthdays). Martha Stewart’s Chocolate Black Pepper Cookies: YUM. Dark cocoa, espresso powder, black pepper in the dough and then a sprinkle on each cookie, and crunchy turbinado sugar along the edge. [...]

Posted on October 7th, 2009 under baking. Tags: baking, chocolate, chocolate black pepper cookies, cookies. Comments: 13

Let’s say that you go to the dump, and then on the way back you suddenly have a mild panic attack because you realize you hard boiled all the eggs for egg salad sandwiches, meaning there are no eggs, and you were thinking of making brownies. Because you get no sleep and chocolate is your [...]

Posted on May 28th, 2009 under baking. Tags: brownies, chocolate, dump, egg salad, eggs. Comments: 5

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Posted on May 1st, 2009 under Julie. Tags: anger, chocolate, cleaning, dinner, housekeeping, laundry, sleep, stress, success. Comments: 1

I have eaten the majority of the cookie dough that was in the fridge it was supposed to be “chilling” so we could make animal crackers later. Forgive me but I’m on a deadline and we were inexplicably out of dark chocolate. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D1547′; addthis_title = ‘This+is+just+to+say’; addthis_pub = ”;

Posted on April 20th, 2009 under Julie. Tags: baking, chocolate, cookies, poetry. Comments: 5