editors' tips: cheesy feet

For my son Lex's first birthday, I wanted to prepare a festive snack that would be tasty for kids and adults. I ended up making these scrumptious cheese biscuits from a recipe in Nigella Lawson's cookbook, Feast: Food to Celebrate Life (which I happen to love, cover-to-cover). She calls it "Cheesy Feet" because she uses a foot-shaped cookie cutter. But, as she points out in the recipe, you can use any shape you want. I dredged up a star, a leaf and a circle, all of which worked beautifully. The best thing about the recipe is how simple and quick it is: You can pull it off with what you (likely) already have in 30 minutes flat. Even better? Everyone loved it. Here's the recipe, straight from Nigella:

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April 04, 2008

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Editors' Tips: Sign of the Times

Kids grow up so fast. Cliche, yes, but true. So, every month, my husband and I print up a sign that reads however old our son, Lex, is at that particular moment in time (one month, six months, nine months...). Then we photograph the little guy with the sign, doing whatever it is he's just learned to do like roll over or wave hello. While celebrating Lex's first birthday a few weeks ago, his dad and I had so much fun thumbing through the prints and noting all of his little changes from picture to picture, month to month. It also makes for a nice album-worthy set to give to his doting grandparents...or maybe even him some day.