My new apartment has a wine fridge in the kitchen. Most people would assume that a single mom would praise the heavens for a wine fridge. Not this one. Liquid courage is not my thing. It took exactly one experience of caring for an infant while nursing a hangover to recognize that I would rather eat my kombucha mother slathered with mayonnaise than drink too much ever again. So, I’ve discovered a better use for my wine fridge. The little pull-out shelves are the perfect size for different kinds of flour, nuts, seeds, and coconut. Eggs and butter fit in there, too. It isn’t as cold as the main fridge, so they are ready for baking even faster.
When it comes down to it, a warm, soft-centered chocolate chip cookie with crunchy, caramelized edges and pools of deep, dark chocolate is just as intoxicating and comforting as anything else. Chocolate disks, if you can find them, make much better chocolate chip cookies than do chips. They’re wide and flat and create lovely chocolate strata within the cookies.
