Starting the year off light...have a cookie

Since many of you really have no idea who I am and just sit there and read my meaningless ramblings, I figured I would start the year off with a subject that is close to my heart.. Cookies. I apologize for all of you have resoluted to diet.

I was raised by bakers. My parent used to own a bakery all across the United States. No, that is grammatically correct. My father owned a bakery in San Bernadino, California when I was adopted (we can have another discussion about that later). Dad also made recipes for Archway cookies such as Windmill and Molasses cookies. When I turned a year old, he sold the bakery, picked up the family and moved us to Anchorage, Alaska. He built a bakery, made money, became bored and sold it. Next stop, Clinton, Illinois (the last move before his death). My Mom helped throughout the entire family relocation processes and bakery builds.

This does not necessarily make me a bakery chef. However, I do love to bake and needless to say, I love cookies. Jami, my oldest daughter, managed to pick up the cookie baking trait as well.

This brings me to my point (I always have one). Cookies should be made with care. There are very few things that bother me more than to pick up a really nice looking oatmeal cookie and attempt to bite into it and not be able. Some cookies, especially store brands are so hard, like in James Bond or Austin Powers for you younger kids, they could be thrown across a room to cleanly take off the head of a statue. Let's face it, cookies are supposed to be eaten, not be weapons. I find the store brand of cookies are the biggest culprits of platinum strength flying saucers.

The other type of cookie that really bothers me is the really high puffy meringue cookies. Why call them cookies? Cookies you bite, meringue you squish to see how small it can get because it is all air. I want a cookie with substance not a cookie can be filled with helium. Hey, thats an idea for birthdays...OK kids, catch your cookies off the ceiling!

Stay away from the partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oil cookies. Why? Well, how many of you were raised in or currently live in a house with hydrogenated soybean oil? Right. You can't buy it. Why? Well, companies are reluctant to sell it to consumers unless they truly enjoy having their customers sit on the toilet and/or pray to the great porcelain princess. It is not good for you at all. That is why they are putting the Trans Fat on the labels of all of your food.
Personally, cookies are best 5 seconds out of the oven, soft and flavorful. But be careful, they are hot so make sure to use the reverse blow. You know the reverse blow, lips puckered, light puffing, inward air flow.

My favorite cookies (homemade of course) are:

Mom's Oatmeal
Jami's Werthers toffee cookies
Godiva chocolate chocolate chip cookies
Gingerbread cookies
Peppermint sugar cookies
Skippy Natural peanut butter cookies
and many more...

edit: My wife (QueenSuchandSuch), read this and just gave me a hard time about not having her chocolate thumbprint cookies (which I LOVE) on the list.

What is your favorite cookie?

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