Wednesday, October 30, 2002


cookies for the soul

poor mr. right kinda had a day from hell, plus he started feeling a tad under our drizzly gray weather. so naturally, i rushed home from work to cheer him up -- with 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies.

i always make the same recipe, even tho' i've recently been turned onto one by a woman making chocolate cookies here in new york under the moniker ruby et violette. if the recipe printed in the new york times, and attributed to r & v, is any indication, it's not radically different from mine -- except mine makes more and larger cookies. . .i can skip the gold leaf that she uses, frankly. pretentious! the dried fig and chocolate chunk cookie could be ok, however; although i'll take a pass on the kiwi. . .

the truth is that you can always make better cookies at home with premium ingredients than any you can buy. this is because it isn't really possible to use the very highest quality ingredients and still sell the cookies profitably -- to recoup the cost on a large scale would make the cookies more expensive than most people would be willing to pay.

so dump those industrial pre-cut pillsbury doughboy widgets, forget about the shipping on the gourmet wonders from afar, and just whip up a batch of your own!

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