Happy New Year everyone!! Here's to a great 2005 :)

Movie recommendation: White Chicks is a surprisingly good movie. I thought it was going to be lame, but it was hilarious!!! Nickey gives it 2 paws up.

I think my chocolate chip cookies are quite tasty, if I do say so myself. I use the Nestle Tollhouse recipe ("NesLAY TOOLohse", for those of you remember that Friends episode) but my secret is to add shortening (or extra butter, if shortening isn't available), extra vanilla as in almost 3xs what the recipe calls for, and chill the dough before putting them onto the cookie sheets. Also, while chocolate chip cookies are meant to be drop cookies, they come out wonderfully if you roll them into a ball and place them on the cookie sheets. It compacts the dough and the cookies come out with a better texture, almost cake-like.