Before I ever watched Julia, Ina or Giada, I watched Nancy…my mom. She cooked dinner for my dad, sisters and I pretty much every night (and breakfast and lunch too, for that matter), a feat I did not fully appreciate until I had a busy (and clamoring!) family of my own.
My mom cooked and baked all kinds of things when I was growing up, but there came a point in the ’80s when she really honed in on chocolate chip cookies. The empire of Mrs. Fields was on the rise — we never left the mall without a half dozen “semisweet, no nuts”. She took it on as a challenge to tinker with her own chocolate chip cookie recipe, which we fully supported as taste testers. To this day, she continues to tweak the ratios of butter to sugar to flour, but as of right now My Mom’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookies are pretty perfect, if you ask me.
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