Soft, chewy, and spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies always remind me of childhood. I loved when my Granny would make Oatmeal Cookies. I love raisins but you can always leave them out if you don't care for them. These Spiced Oatmeal Cookies are filled with vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger for a delicious balance of spices.
Chewy Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies elicit fond memories of Granny's kitchen growing up.
Chocolate Chip and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies were always a staple in our house.
She and my Granddad were kind enough to spend their retirement raising me with morals and values they had accumulated over the decades. They never once complained of raising me but instilled me with lessons I would have never learned else where.
Granny was a cooking goddess in her 70's, very few things in our house were ever prepackaged and most days were spent in the kitchen fixing breakfast, lunch, dinner and a dessert from scratch. One of the few premade items to grace our dinner table would be the occasional take and bake pizza and as a special treat at lunch time we enjoyed the occasional hamburger from Mc Donald's but it was definitely a treat and few and far between.
As the winner of this month's Shine Supper Club for my
Moist Chocolate Cake with Ganache Frosting From Scratch I was asked who I would invite to my ideal dinner party living or dead and I knew in that moment I would have loved just one more day with them. To spend time in the kitchen learning all my favorite recipes she would make for me as a child. To be able to jot down the wild stories my Granddad would tell of Caddying for Al Capone as a young man growing up in Cicero, Ill. and all the memories my grandmother had shared as I was too young to remember the exact details of the stories but rather just a gist.
Oh how much I would give for them to meet Colt and the kids and to be able to see how well I turned out. Just for one more moment to say Thank You for being such an inspiration for who I am today!