Store bought cookies are out and homemade are in!!

Again, to save money, I have been forced to make homemade chocolate chip cookies. I think I have tried before years ago but have blocked it from my memory. But tonight after going a week with no real junk food in the house, Jason was more than eager to make a run to the grocery store for brown sugar and vanilla extract. Thus at 8:30pm I was pushed in the kitchen with Alton Brown's recipe for chewy chocolate chip cookies. I followed the recipe to the point of weighing the flour instead of using a measuring cup (Alton's way) and I think the cookies came out great.

That is saying something from me because I don't feel it is a great "home baked" CC cookie unless it comes from the Pillsbury Dough Dough Boy. With the log, I don't feel the need to even bake cookies, spoonfuls of dough do just fine. I have even been known to make a run to the grocery store in my pajamas to get a log of dough only to get back in the car and use my keys to poke a hole in the plastic and squeeze the dough directly in my mouth. Now before think of me binging behind a dumpster on cookie dough, the time this incident happened, I was with friends and we all had the intention of going back home to bake the cookies and we all passed the dough around. By the time we got back to the house, half the dough was gone and we were sick. I am sure my two faithful readers will remember this story.

Anyway..I digress...

The kids really liked the cookies and big Jason ate several with a smile and a tall glass of milk. So now I know for sure that I want, I mean need, a 5qt stand up mixer like Alton Brown. I don't have to have flames though. Oh wait, I am making cookies to save money. Shucks, I guess my $10 hand mixer will have to do for awhile.