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I enjoy making cookies the most --- in large part becuase I get to eat cookie dough! Ususally it's chocolate chip, though every now I then I'll make oatmeal cookies for a change (for some reason, they just seem healthier!).

I love the whole process of cooking ... especially a complicated dish with lots of chopping, mincing, etc. to get ingredients ready to cook. There's something so satfisfying about all the effort involved, and ending up with a fabuslous dish at the end.

The first cookbook I remember using was an old Fannie Farmer cookbook of my mom's -- fromt the 70s I think. It was well used and slighly beaten up. My absolute favorite recipe from it was for French Silk pie -- such an easy recipe but so good. I lost the cookbook in a move many years ago (I'm pretty sure my ex ended up with it) and have never been able to find the same recipe -- the original recipe used raw eggs but any recipe I can find now doesnt. Fortunately, my mom was able to reember the raw egg version so we still make it to this day (and no one has ever gotten sick!).