I'd like to say I was born in the kitchen and had a knack for cooking early on, but the truth is that I married my first husband at 21 and was completely clueless. I always joked that if we could survive on spaghetti, pancakes, and cookies we would be just fine! I remember very early on in my life my Mom made these yummy chocolate chip cookies. I liked them but didn’t love them. Now if you put a cheesecake or a donut in front of me there was no doubt it was going to be demolished. My Mother gave me a recipe book for a wedding gift. She hand wrote all my favorites she used to make. I still have most of them today! I especially kept the cookie recipe and made them for years just as she wrote it for me many years ago.