Well,  I guess the snow is getting to me.  I really wanted to be above it all, shouldering bravely through the blizzard, never given to remarks about the weather like everyone else I know, but Mother Nature finally won,  as she so often does. When the four walls began to close in on me this afternoon, I retreated to the one place where no blizzard, no hurricane, no heat wave or cold snap can touch me: my kitchen. It wasn’t the first time. Since the snow began I have produced a dazzling variety of dishes including beef stew, roast chicken and a snappy three-layer dip on Super Bowl Sunday. Today it was cookies. I was going to make a batch of tollhouse cookies, but I started playing around and came up with the following recipe. Give them a try. This recipe makes about 4 dozen, and they are, of course, best eaten the day they are made, though they will probably keep for about a week in a sealed plastic container.  I don’t have a name for them yet.

NAMELESS  CHOC. CHIP COOKIES

2 sticks unsalted butter

2 eggs

2 ¼ cup flour

¼ cup good cocoa powder (I like Droste)

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 TBL spoon vanilla

½ tsp. espresso powder

½ tsp. ground cinnamon

½  cup granulated sugar

½ cup firmly packed dark brown sugar

White choc. Chips

Dark choc. Chips

Dried Cherries

Chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 and prepare a cookie sheet with cooking spray and parchment. Cream butter and sugars together until well mixed and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing until incorporated. Add vanilla.  In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt, baking powder, espresso powder and cinnamon together. Add to wet ingredients in three batches, mixing well after each addition. Add the last four ingredients, amounts to taste.  Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet, leaving room for spreading between each cookie. Bake for 10 min, transfer to rack and cool.

I hope you like them. If you can think of a name for them, I’m open to suggestions.  I look forward to your comments. Now if I could just think of some way to cook SNOW!!!!! Meantime, here's a picture of the Nameless Cookies: