My third year of college, I met a girl named Michaela. She was constantly coming to class with new stories of all of her adventures. It seemed she tried a new recipe or something new every night. We quickly became friends.
I moved to Texas recently. For me it was a giant leap. Even if I do have family down here for support and love, it has been a very hard transition to make...especially with no promising job prospects. Not two days after I moved here a package arrived for me in the mail from New York, New York. I thought, what in the world? I do not know anyone from New York. I opened it and inside was a note from Michaela with a hand-made necklace that she had made for me from one of the artists on etsy.com. Written on the necklace was the word "COURAGE". The note read, "Christy, May you find the courage to follow your dreams and chase your passions."
Holy cow! It was as if a light bulb lit up above my head. She is right. All it takes is courage. That necklace is around my neck almost everyday and whenever I look in the mirror and see courage staring back at me, it is a reminder to follow my dreams and chase my passions. Thank you Michaela!
I am sure you are asking what this story has to do with a cookie recipe? Everything. I know how to make chocolate chip cookies. I have a recipe right on the back of the chocolate chip bag and I know that that recipe makes tasty cookies. However, what if there was a better recipe? I won't know until I try. So, I looked online in search of one. The first one that came up from my google search was Alton Brown's recipe titled, "The Chewy". I already start doubting myself if this is a good idea or not. --What if they turn out like crap? What if the cookies taste nasty? It would be a total waste of my time and ingredients. My sister and her husband would think I can't bake.-- These ridiculous thoughts run in and out of my head and finally I put a stop to them. All I have is time and I didn't pay for the ingredients (because I'm jobless). Honestly, it's a cookie. Have
the courage to try something new.
When I was looking at the recipe reviews posted by people who have made them, the posts were nothing short of the best cookie they ever tasted. I had to laugh because one woman even admitted that she created an account, something she never does, with foodnetwork.com just to rave about these cookies. What the hell. Preheat the oven, get the ingredients out, and start measuring.
Seriously, the dough itself was amazing. No way could these cookies taste just as good baked. I baked six cookies at a time just as the recipe recommends and the oven couldn't bake
them fast enough. They were, honestly, the best chocolate chip cookie I ever ate. My sister, who is a total cookie dough
junky, even said that this is the one recipe where she prefers the dough baked. Now that is a testimonial. MAKE THIS RECIPE! You won't regret it!
**I only chilled the dough for a couple of hours. I also didn't use bread flour. AND I made the cookies smaller, so obviously I didn't need to leave them in the oven for 14 minutes. I did rotate the pan halfway through (something that I have never done when making cookies and will now practice this with every cookie recipe). I must say that the cookies do get pretty brown on the bottom, but I am going to be completely honest with you when I say that it did not AT ALL hinder their taste. **
From here on out, I vow to be more courageous. Even if the end result won't be delicious warm cookies, the journey will still be worth the end result.
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