Chocolate Chip

i make a batch of chocolate chip cookies at least once a week.
i use the recipe on the back of the nestle toll house package.
i actually have it cut out and taped in the front of my cookbook so i don't always have to buy that brand of chocolate chips.
i can make it without ever looking at the recipe though.
instead of all the butter, i use half crisco sticks.
is that gross?
all butter = flat hard cookies
1/2 butter 1/2 crisco = fluffy, soft and chewy
and you have to make them extra big.

i don't make all of the dough at once.
i make enough for everyone to have one, then keep the rest either in the fridge or i freeze it in dough balls.
let the dough get to room temperature then pop them in the oven for fresh cookies any time.
i read to do that in a magazine once.

fresh hot cookies after school.
fresh hot cookies while reading books.
fresh hot cookies for dessert.
fresh hot cookies during play-doh time.

perfectly chewy and soft.
and huge, let's not forget huge.

cause, you know, cookies make every fun thing more fun.

QUIP O'THE DAY
my father retired from the military as a lieutenant colonel after 27 years when i was a sophomore in high school.