Week 12- Makeup Week- Favorite Foodski :)

What is there not to like about cookies when they are warm and just melt in your mouth? I am so thankful that the dutch accidentally made “koekje” or “little cakes”- what are now known as cookies. Cooks back in the day would use a small amount of cake batter to test their oven before baking a cake. The marvelous thing that happened to result from this practice was the single-serving size cookie. The Dutch popularized the cookie in the United States. Years later, in the 1930s, an innkeeper in Massachusetts with the name of Ruth Wakefield ran out of nuts while making cookies. Thank goodness for this tragedy because she decided to substitute chunks of a chocolate bar instead forming the Toll House Cookie; in other words the famous Chocolate Chip Cookie. The delicious, smooth chocolatey bite delights my taste buds. Just thinking about cookies makes my mouth drool!

However, the best cookies in the world are chocolate chip oatmeal cookies; a summary of my childhood. They are also known as the “DiGiovanni’s Tradition.” At least three times a month my family would gather in the kitchen and makes several batches of our favorite cookies. These chocolate chip oatmeal cookies made the bond between my family grow stronger. Now when I make a visit home to Texas during BYU breaks, the first words that come out of my siblings’ mouths are “Who wants to make the DiGi’s cookies?” Whoever said sweets cannot bring happiness was wrong. I sincerely smile every time I think back to those cookie making days in my California kitchen where flour was draped over the granite counter top. I love thinking of many memories of my childhood and how I have made it to where I am today. Honestly I can say that the legendary chocolate chip oatmeal cookies not only gave my taste buds a treat, but also filled my heart with the love I share for my family and the memorable times we spent together making them.

I honestly revised this paragraph before I even wrote it. By reading everybody else’s comments on how they changed their blog, I already had ideas in my head of the organization I wanted to follow. I had to change a few words here and there, but thanks to ya’ll I did not have to do a whole lot! Hopefully it was not too shabby of a blog!