Cookies Even a MAN Can Make

Brig just came back from the gas station with a pop and a boughten cookie---aarrgh. So I immediately made an easy batch of cookies. Generally, I would prefer to make something like "George's Chocolate Chip Monsters", or something from scratch, but I am on the computer so these are fast and easy.

(George was a man--a funeral director-- that my dad ran marathons and trained with for 15 years--running up and down country roads, traveling around the US, but he died of a heart attack at the end of a run in Topeka--irony. My dad never ran after that, except to honor George every spring by going to his favorite race. That cookie recipe was from their family...)

Anyway-- a "cheater's recipe":
dump either a cheap chocolate or yellow (or other) cake mix in a bowl and add 2 eggs and 1/2 cup of melted butter or oil. I like real butter. Throw in a bag of chocolate chips, and ANYTHING you have in the kitchen: raisins, nuts, coconut, handfuls of oatmeal, crunched up potato chips or pretzels, peanut butter chips, butterscotch, a broken up candy bar.... Bake at 325 and take them out slightly before they are done and let them cool a little on the tray before removing them. Spray pan with Pam a little first just in case you have too many sticky goodies...
Burning! More later!
Then quickly give most of them away to your neighbor (if your son is busy "X-Boxing" and cannot be bothered by something so trivial as EATING when playing Turok or Call of Duty,) so that way you don't eat them all yourself...