Mustard on Chocolate Chip Cookies

[beowulff]

Here’s something I posted 12 years ago:

How can someone be a bad cook?

I have a friend who is the Mozart of food. She has “perfect taste” analogous to “perfect pitch.” I’ve seen her come into my kitchen and fix a delicious meal with nothing but crackers, a few bottles of sauce on the shelf and some ancient veggies in the fridge. I think she has whatever it takes to be a really good cook - a fundamental and thorough understanding of what flavors and textures work well together, plus a basic understanding of cooking itself. One time, we were at Denny’s (a chain of m…

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