The Cookie Constant

It's hard to go wrong spending a good part of the morning making chocolate chip cookies. No need to know the recipe, it's on the chip bag, and about the only way to torpedo the suckers is burn 'em. In addition to semi-sweets, I like to add butterscotch chips, pistachios, and walnuts. The sweet, gooey potpourri of them lingers for a couple of days. Tyler stands on a chair and stirs everything in, wants to taste the batter even when it's still just butter and flour, and today was a milestone: sole custody of the mixer blade was his when all was said and done. Next comes the social networking aspect: we'll never eat 'em all, so time to deliver care packages to the neighbors. Yum!