Day: April 14, 2008

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30 years of Chocolate Chip Cookies

My Favorite Chocolate chip Cookie

Almost everyone I know still uses a chocolate chip recipe on the back of a bag of chocolate chips or in a cookie book. This is sad, when the best recipes are still out there… although somewhat forgotten and unused.

Back in the mid ’70’s, the humble chocolate chip cookie was about to get ‘customized!’ (then, nearly 80% of all cookies baked from scratch were chocolate chip cookies… surprised? I suspect that this hasn’t changed much)

As an ol’ chocolate salesman from that era, I remember Famous Amos and his wonderful fist size cookies. Don’t look for them today…. they are not what they once were. However, for us chocolate lovers, it gave us a chance to rush to our test kitchens and try our hand at making ours better.

So, I thought, what’s better than to add the three most popular ingredients in cookie making: chocolate chips, peanut butter and oatmeal?

So here’s our recipe!

You can still make cookies best from scratch!

Roger Freberg

Hey, today’s my birthday… Jenny Craig will just have to understand

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at the Cal Poly Gender Apartheid Oasis

Cal Poly & Bin Laden Connection?
Cal Poly President Warren Baker has decided that He will sign the Cal Poly and Saudi Arabian deal within a month. How this program snuck by the faculty, students and the public without review is still a point of irritation.

Apparently, Gender Apartheid is still alive and well at Cal Poly and Saudi Arabia.

Of course, although there is a travel warning to American Citizens regarding Saudi Arabia , Cal poly plans to go ahead…. if there is a buck in it! Other areas that include warnings are resort locations like: Iraq, Afghanistan, the West Bank, Sudan and Yemen.
Cal Poly Learning Discrimination by DoingIn a related decision, the university plans to use more and more masters level students to cover the teaching load. It is important to realize that these individuals would not be qualified to teach at the community college. I will predict that these barely degreed undergraduates will take over more and more classes at Cal Poly. It is clear that this will now allow ‘the appropriate’ faculty free time to teach Saudi Nationals.

Again, how is this part of the Cal State university mission?

Apparently, the Dean of Engineering Mohammad Noori will be addressing the Engineering Students today…. it will be a good opportunity in this open forum to quiz Mohammad Noori about why this is so good for Cal Poly, women and other under represented groups. Why all the secrecy? Why the lack of consultation if this was such a good idea?

Roger Freberg

Edmund Burke: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.“