My mother makes the best chocolate chip cookies ever. She would use the recipe out of the red & white checked Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook — the one with the stove burner imprint on the backside of it because she accidentally placed it on a burner once. But I digress…and I only mention it because that is like something that I would completely do.

When I moved away and went to college she bought me one of those cookbooks. It was a different edition than hers, but it still had a whole cookie chapter and, of course, chocolate chip cookies. But whenever I followed the recipe to make them all these years — they were never as good.

Over the weekend I finally called her, asked her to pull down her book and compare the recipes with me, because something was definitely not the same. Sure, the cookies I . . . → Read More: My Mom’s Chocolate Chip Cookies