My husband Joshua’s Grandma Violet has a legendary collection of cookie jars from the 1940s and 50s. They are amazing. Last year, with the passing of Josh’s Gramps, dear Vi decided to distribute some of her jars, one to each grandchild. Josh got this awesome walrus one – do you not love its awesome old-fashioned cartoon-ish styling? It’s kinda Betty Boop-esque, methinks. I adore the little bird on his head.I saw it sitting on the top of one of our bookshelves, sadly empty – its purpose in life unfulfilled.
I couldn’t stand to see it like that so I decided to honour Violet’s jar by engaging in a little late-night baking of oatmeal chocolate chip raisin cookies.
So here’s another Commitment for 2010: to always keep the walrus’s belly full of home baked cookies. Hmmm… let’s see if I keep it up. This batch is already almost gone (and I only made it yesterday morning! We are Cookie Monsters!), but there’s already a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I’m excited to make. All this after so much holiday indulging that Josh and I vowed to only eat salads for the next two weeks. Oh well.
P.S. Do you like how my photos on this blog are absolute shite? Good thing our new Panasonic Lumix is coming in the mail soon. Notice how I’m blaming our current camera on my lame photography skills.
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