It’s been nearly twenty years since my Grandpa Russ and Grandma Janice moved into town, leaving behind the farmhouse located on the narrow blacktop of Murphy Road, seven miles west of Aurora, Nebraska that was the backdrop for so many formative memories. When I was growing up, there were a number of different ways we would pass the time while spending a day at “The Farm”: joining Grandma to deliver coffee and sandwiches out in the field to Grandpa and the hired man during harvest time; finding any number of ways to be entertained by clamoring around the barn, old chicken coop and other outbuildings; reading Grandpa’s collection of Garfield comics; and playing cards at the cozy four-person table in the small kitchen.
Wonderful memories, to be sure, but something made a day at The Farm truly special: access to a near unlimited supply of my Grandma’s home-baked cookies. The experience would begin at the front door, where Grandma would meet us with a container of her most recent batch of chocolate chip cookies, retrieved from the freezer. “You boys look like you could use some cookies” she would say. We would each take a couple, enjoying each bite of a cookie that no other baker has quite been able to replicate in the time since. The Tupperware of cookies would then be left on the kitchen table, where they were fair game for the balance of the day.
As we grew up, these cookies found their way into college care packages she prepared for us, and they eventually became favorites of my own two boys. And even though visits to The Farm ended with that move to town, and I am no longer young but am positively middle-aged, some things haven’t changed: whatever the venue, my Grandma will greet us with a Tupperware in tow, saying “it’s nice to see you – you look like you could use a few cookies.”
I’m so thankful that Anchovy made it so easy to SAVE and SHARE these recipes. Using Anchovy’s user-friendly importing feature to upload each one was accompanied by a flood of nostalgia, and it was so much fun to use Anchovy to share those recipes with my family members. I know they cherish these recipes just as I do, and hopefully receiving these recipes via the Anchovy app inspired their own warm thoughts of time spent with my Grandpa and Grandma so long ago. I invite everyone to download Anchovy to enjoy these same experiences!
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