With what seems to me like a third of the library stocked with them, new-to-me cookbooks are always finding themselves in my kitchen. I covet and drool over the lovely pictures of food that I could potentially make, sometimes totally skipping over all of the verbage to skip to a photo, and therefore a recipe, that calls to me.
But, after I cook recipes after purposely buying the ingredients, I find that many of the recipes just.don't.work. I usually give a book a couple of tries, and I learn my lesson, not subscribing to the "third time's a charm" rule. I have a conniption when I end up not using ingredients to its yummiest capacity.
This is why, just by principle, I don't buy cookbooks before I try them.
While rushing through our weekly library trip last Tuesday, shaking my keys to distract Baby J as she attempted to jump out of our moving stroller, I picked up this up in the New Book Section.
It seems that the same rule applies to libraries as it applies to grocery stores - one mustn't go when one is hungry. My sweet tooth, apparently, needed to be satiated.
Within a week, I baked 3 batches of biscotti using one of their recipes and snickerdoodles. But the recipe that won this Halu-Halo family is their chocolate chip cookie.
They disappeared, lickety-split.
Crazy about Cookies is a keeper, even for this recipe alone! I am a believer that everything happens for a reason; now, I am grateful that Baby J attempted to disembark at that exact spot in the New Book section of the library.
Thank you, Krystina, for sharing recipes that are simple and true!
