Grandama's Recipes..

I wanted to make chocolate chip cookies the other day so I used my All Recipes search-foo and found a highly rated recipe.  Horrible.  Honestly I'm not sure how you can screw up cookies, but it happened.  They spread out like crazy, and then stuck to my pan.  David had to get a little crazy with the spatula to get them off.  They were somewhat edible, certainly not the best cookies I've made, but not nearly as bad as the atrocity that was shortbread cookies.  Luckily I only used one bag of my organic chocolate chips for the cookies.  The rest of the dough is shamefully still in my kitchen-aid mixer bowl awaiting disposal.

This brings me to the idea that the best recipes are those that I obtain from my grandmothers cookbooks.  Which means I'm going to have to steal the from my mom and/or my sister (I'm not sure who has possession of them currently), and then spend hours either typing them in or doing it proper and making my own hard copy by hand.  My grandma never messed up her cookies.  Ever.

Although my better senses tell me that some of the recipes will need to be modified.  There's no way in hell I'm putting Accent on anything.  I wouldn't even buy the stuff, not even if someone paid me to buy it for them.  I tend to feel strongly about that, and that's a whole different topic in which I might go into in the near future.  ;)

So tomorrow evening I shall call my mother and ask to steal above mentioned recipe books, and I will carry on the family recipes (mostly).  :)