So I’ve been making these chocolate chocolate cookies from Cook’s Illustrated. I’ve done about 4 runs of them over the last few months, and they’re … um .. really good. Just ask Erin or Julie.

These are them before the oven bakes ‘em:

So on saturday night, we had a dinner party. We made steak, veggies, fresh ciabatta bread, and the cookies. Sasha had to go to sleep before the cookies were ready, but she had a few (ahem … ok more than a few) nibbles of choco chunks as we were prepping the dough.

On sunday night, she had half a cookie. She loooved them .. and she did 8 laps running up and down the hallway. Ooop … maybe half a cookie was too much. That night I slept in her room due to ongoing Julie coughing issues at night (sorry Julie). And at 3am, Sasha woke me up with tossing about and muttering. And after a few moments of mumbling something indeciperhable, she said, without waking up and with perfect enunciation: ‘choc … o … late’ .. and drifted back peacefully.

That’s the best complement this chef has ever received.