The baby arrived three weeks ago. We named her Finch, for no other reason than that we like how it sounds. She gave us quite a start, insisting on being born five weeks early. And since then it's been about sleeping and pooping and — of course —...

It was a fiddling kind of night. "Classic," boring, chocolate chip cookies would not do. Replacing some of the butter with tahini gives the cookies a not-overwhelming nuttiness without compromising richness and all of the extra stuff makes them much...