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World Peace Cookies

This advice on making the best (chocolate chip) cookies, from New York Times, explains why some time chilling does a dough good. Tip: the chocolate chip cookie via Jacques Torres, linked to from the NYT article, is also a spectacular cookie recipe. Bookmark both of them. If you like chocolate chocolate chip cookies, these are… continue reading

Making Fortunes

Brought a few dozen of these to an antiChristmas party last week. Followed a great Martha Stewart fortune/tuile cookie recipe (I LOVE YOU MARTHA! XO) and filled the cookies with subversive and snarky messages like “Santa isn’t real” and “Happy fucking holidays.” One of my favorites read something like “May your holidays be filled with… continue reading

A Recipe: Pumpkin-Cranberry Cookies

Recipe by Lucy Randall via AllRecipes.com. Makes 3 dozen of the best cookies (that aren’t chocolate chip) EVER! Ingredients 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg 1 cup solid pack pumpkin puree 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt… continue reading

My name is Caroline (AKA Puppy). Welcome to Little Package.

I’ve been blogging about this and that since 2000. Travels, food, bicycles, more travels… In 2009 I left an eight year career as a medical/surgical nurse and worked at home, crafting cycling caps instead. In 2013 I hiked the entire 2660-mile-long Pacific Crest Trail, and when I finished I knew the adventure wasn’t over. I had been considering the RV life for years, so I bought a 1983 VW Westfalia van to “test the waters” of mobile dwelling. And off I go!

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