My Favorite Thing

Some foods are good. Some foods are great. Some foods are life changing.
My mother's chocolate chip cookies are life changing.

My chocolate chip cookies

When Holland posted about her experience teaching the members of our blog group to make chocolate chip cookies, it reminded me of my experience learning to make chocolate chip cookies. As one of the few recipes I have memorized, chocolate chip cookies have come to mean more to me than simply being calorie-loaded, guilt-enducing, waiste-line-ruining, sugar vessels. To me, chocolate chip cookies mean memories. They mean people. They mean tradition.