Toll House cookie juju

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Maybe it was the little kid in the Trader Joe’s line this morning wearing the David Ortiz jersey, but today seemed like a good day for some New England sports juju. The Red Sox are starting a series with the Yankees this afternoon, and the Patriots, who are playing the late game Sunday night against San Diego, just got socked with a massive fine for cheating. So I baked my grandmother’s Toll House cookies, in the hopes that it would send a few positive vibes toward her native Massachusetts. My earliest memories are of her cooking while reading the box scores; in her later years, she and my grandfather lived not too far from Foxboro Stadium. It’s a pretty traditional recipe, not unlike the one on the back of the chocolate chip bag, although, being a good Quaker, she added oatmeal to the batter. I switched out the chocolate chips for chunks of Valhrona, but otherwise it’s the same recipe my mother made me when I was a kid. Maybe if Belichick had had some cookies to munch on during the game last weekend, he wouldn’t have been videotaping signals.

-- Amy Scattergood