The Hungry Mouse

Call me crazy, but when I've had a long day, there's something really satisfying about going home and baking cookies. The dough is simple to throw together. They don't take long in the oven. And they make the house smell heavenly. These cookies are soft and chewy and oh-so-gingery. About the method These are really simple to make. Combine the wet ingredients. Then...

This is another incidence of me combining homemade bread with pork products. If it happens again, I might just have a problem. I can admit that. While it's not necessarily a fast thing to cook (you need a few hours to let your dough rise), this pizza is really easy to make. It feeds a crowd and is great reheated...

Gummi bears are my favorite candy. Hands down. And while any gummi bear will do in a pinch, I definitely like Haribo Gold-Bears the best. Needless to say, I lost my mind when I saw this this morning: Target is selling these pink LED GummiLights by Jellio for $79.99. (You heard me right: That's almost 80 bucks.) These little suckers are...

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. While there's no breast cancer in my family, it affects hundreds of thousands of people each year. Now, I'm not really one to get up on a pulpit. But I've known several people who have been affected directly or indirectly, so every October, I try to do my small part to support the...

This may be the shortest intro in Hungry Mouse history. We're out the door in a few minutes on our way to a party, but here's what we're bringing. A galette is basically a rustic tart. It's free-form and halfway open faced, so you get a peek at the gooey, caramelized fruit that's hiding inside. This particular galette is made with...

It's just about 9 o'clock on Friday night and it's 53 degrees in Boston—which is officially soup weather in my book. It's late to be starting a pot of soup, but somehow that's not stopping me. Now, let me take a step back. Inadvertently, tonight's dinner has a theme of sorts. Normally, this is kind of a cringe-worthy idea, as The...

This has got to be my favorite way to cook squash, short of doing that kind-of-horrifying-but-still-embarrassingly-yummy thing where you mash it up with butter then bake it under a snowy blanket of marshmallows. Think of this as grown-up version of that. It's sweet and salty, and is a well-mannered companion for an elegant autumn dinner. This squash cooks in two parts....

This is one of my ultimate comfort foods. It's got a lovely balance of sweet and savory flavors from the combination of apple cider, cinnamon, chicken stock, browned meat, and a smidge of apricot preserves. A warm bowl of it with a cup of strong tea really hits the spot on a chilly autumn night. It also makes amazing picnic sandwiches...

Ooof, what a crazy day! Thankfully, I had a really nice lunch, courtesy of my dear husband, The Angry Chef. I told him last night that my day today would most likely be nuts, so he got up earlier than usual to make me an extra nice lunch. Sometimes, it's the little things that get you through the day. Yummy bento lunch...

  Ever since I was a kid, cranberry sauce has always been one of my favorite things about the fall. Most of the time, my mom made homemade cranberry sauce. Now, she's an amazing cook. Sometimes, though, if I was lucky and she didn't have time, she'd bust out that ubiquitous canned cranberry sauce log. (Come on, that stuff is super cool because...