Cooking Through "The Baker's Man": Mudslide Cookies

We like to describe situations in life that are less than stellar using colorful imagery, similes, metaphors, idioms, etc. because saying, “This sucks,” isn’t always the classiest choice.We go from the frying pan into the fire. We stand on sinking sands. We leap from sinking ships. We see a light at the end of a tunnel only to find out it’s an oncoming train. We watch life go downhill from here. We are upthatcreek without a paddle. We bark up the wrong trees, beat dead horses, and open cans o...