A Love Letter to Dorie Greenspan

I recently purchased Dorie Greenspan's "Baking: From My Home to Yours" and I must say it is one of the best cook books I have. The chocolate chunk cookies are really the best ever (at least the best next to Shuna Lydon's Cardamom Chocolate Chunk Cookies).
Yesterday around four o'clock a breeze managed to flow through my house. I took this as nature's invitation to turn the oven on. I had everything I needed to bake the Sugar Topped Molasses Spice Cookies and they are as good as everything else I've tried from the book. I think Ms. Greenspan makes me out to be a better baker than I really am. The cookies are almost gone. At first I thought perhaps my pinch of black pepper was not a large enough pinch but as I was biting in to my 9th cookie of the evening I realized they were absolutely perfect. Moist, chewy, thin, delicious and with just enough spice. My son and husband ate almost the rest of them. My daughter refused as they are not covered in a hard candy shell. I tried to explain that they were dipped in sugar but there is only so much a mother can do.
This afternoon my son and I will head over to International Blvd. in search of Mexican oil cloth and perhaps some nice chocolate. I'm still thinking about the Mexican chocolate cookie idea. Hopefully it will come to be more than a thought by tonight or tomorrow. I would really like to be able to include some original recipes here. Wish me luck.