Gingersnaps

"Oh, snap!"

-- Tracy Morgan

Ginger Snaps 9-3-14

"Zuzu, my little gingersnap. How do you feel?"

-- "George Bailey," It's A Wonderful Life

I feel good.

Because I made gingersnaps.

Gingersnaps are spicy little cookies with snappy crisp outsides, and soft chewy centers.

Gingersnaps smell good.

Gingersnaps taste good.

Gingersnaps even sound good.

Go ahead. Say "gingersnap" out loud a few times and see what I mean.

Gingersnap.

Gingersnap. Gingersnap. Gingersnap.

Now doesn't that cheer you right the fuck up?

If you bake some gingersnaps, be careful not to make the same mistake I did and go all guppy and eat and eat and eat these tasty li'l motherfuckers until you feel like you're about to explode -- or wish you would.

Trust me. I'm speaking from recent experience here. If you overindulge, even on something as lovely as gingersnaps, you'll feel not good.

(Note: if there are gingersnap flakes floating around in your tank, you are overdoing it.)

Baking Cookies

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world,

had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon

and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

-- Barbara Jordan

Homemade cookie 2-23-14

"Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food.

They are very bite-sized and personal."

-- Sandra Lee

Here is my foolproof, step by step guide for adding a little goodness to your day, or to the day of someone you love. It's as easy as 1,2,3:

Step 1: Make A Mess

Step 2: Bake Some Little Dough Blobs

Step 3: Eat The Cookies

"I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know?"

-- Bobby Flay

Of course, if it is an emergency, you can skip steps 2 and 3 and just eat all of the dough. But then you might feel not-so-good, and that's not a good thing. It's definitely a risk you take when baking cookies. So I highly recommend following all of the steps.

There.

Now don't you feel just a little better?