In Which I Relish Relish and In Which I Reveal the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

I'm late to the show for Relish; I've seen it in the past couple of weeks on half a dozen blogs. And rightly so. It is a worthy read.

Lucy Knisley draws the story of her life as seen through the food she eats and cooks and...well, relishes.

Here are a few of my favorite pages:

Spaghetti with (yum!) bacon.

Her recipes are really easy to follow,

like this one for Huevos Rancheros (exploded view).

Whoa! 

The recipe that intrigued me most is the (self-described)

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. 

Ha. 

And double Ha.

Sorry, Lucy Knisley. 

But I'm afraid I already have created the 

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.

I have worked on it for over twenty years,

tweaking it here and there,

and finally adding a secret ingredient 

you will never guess and I will never reveal.

Relish inspired me to mix up a batch of my

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe for my face-to-face book group.

(After all, tonight we are bringing a mystery,

and my cookie recipe has a mystery ingredient.)

It is humbling to see that Lucy has used many of the same ingredients I have:

eggs, white sugar and brown sugar, butter, salt, flour, baking soda.

But I use milk chocolate chips, while she chooses semi-sweet chips.

And, of course, there is my secret ingredient.

Which I can never reveal.

What do you think? 

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