Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Oh...nice!!! Did your grandfather live in LA also or in Northern California?

@JohnRoberts Yes, in that Mediterranean pocket. Awesome!

@Jeanniemaries Mid-coastal area.

@Jeanniemaries I've never made them, but I certainly eat them - I just buy them.

These are easy. They are all made and cut. Just put them on a pan and bake. Have you never made them or just don't anymore?

@jaboUK Ahhh but you miss the great cookie smell wafting through the house!

I think baking them will kill any bacteria or whatever from them being over dated any way

I was surprised to find them! Of course I had to bake them all as they were out of date. So I will be be freezing some. (I hope there will be some left to freeze!)

@jhechorain Well I had no ill effects, thank goodness and there are some to freeze also!

Yes, I feel better eating cookies if they have walnuts in them (ha ha) Do you use other nuts to cook with too? I like pecans sometimes.

@Jeanniemaries I usually have more pecans than walnuts, but I love them both.

@1creekgirl Pecans are my second choice for nuts in cookies. I love almonds but not really in cookies.

@Jeanniemaries I love Nestle Toll House the most and the ones with the Hershey Kiss.

@DianneN I can tell quite a difference between Nestle's chocolate and Hershey's. It's funny but I prefer Hershey's when it's Easter candy and Nestle's when it's cookies.

I'm with you in all that, but do love them in cookies too. I'm not sure chocolate chip is my favorite cookie though. I'm very partial to sugar cookies and I like them plain, without nuts.

Yes, really! Who turns down a cookie?

@Jeanniemaries exactly

@Jeanniemaries I like with nuts

@averygirl72 What other kinds of foods do you put walnuts in?

Not everyone likes nuts. I like walnuts in a lot of things like salad, stuffing, pie....Do you stick just with cookies?

@Jeanniemaries Yes ;)

Aha! Pecans are my second choice! But you are from Georgia. All Georgians prefer pecans!

I always put walnuts in Oatmeal, but never peanut butter ones or sugar cookies.

@Jeanniemaries Pee-cans.

Do you say Pee-cans or Pea-cons?

@DWDavis I thought so!! My daughter's mother in law is from NC and she keeps telling me I say it wrong!

Yes. I think it's partially responsible for my general good health. It was a good snack to grow up on.

@Jeanniemaries We were always taught the our area had the same type of climate as California.

@Jeanniemaries Do you know if the the trees are still there? When we were travelling in Germany in the country there was an area where fruit trees had been planted on the road verges. I don't know who looked after them - if anybody.

@JudyEv They are not. It's sad, but they built HOUSES while my back was turned. There used to be a small triangle of land where there was a tiny orchard of almond trees and we occasionally got some, but it was owned by someone who harvested them and we just got the leftovers. California truly is the land of fruit and nuts. We had three fruit trees and 2 nut trees!

OH, don't get me started! Yum, yum, yum! Chocolate covered nuts are awesome!

@Jeanniemaries yes they are.. if my teeth weren't so bad I would eat them more.

I so wish I could like yogurt! I have never been able to acquire a taste for it. Do you like flavored or plain?

@Jeanniemaries I like the original vanilla. But also others too.

And they are healthier too! Do you put a lot of nuts in or just enough to taste?

I lived in Northern California near San Francisco. It's a small pocket of California that has a Mediterranean climate. English walnuts grew everywhere! The next street over were lined with walnut trees and it was somewhat rural, no sidewalks. The city owned the trees I guess, but they were never harvested. We gathered the nuts in the fall but all year we played under the trees and in the trees. The branches grew so low we would ride them like horses! They had quite a bounce!