Tonight we celebrated Don’s birthday. He is a wonderful guy married to my sister in law Abbye. He is a huge football fan and played for Cornell.

Noah, Adam, Don and Reagan (Don and Abbye’s son)  played football in our ginormous backyard. It was hilarious. Noah sent Adam inside to get a helmet and shoulder pads that are Noah’s. Adam put on all the gear and went head to head with his brother.  Anytime Adam would get the ball he would pass it to Don because he didn’t want to get tackled. This strategy didn’t work too well for the backyard game. There was no referee to call penalties, so it  was every man and child for himself.

These boys are tired and dirty.

I love to cook and especially bake. When I was a child learning to cook, I would pull out my Mom’s red Betty Crocker cookbook and find something to make. Of course I would scavenge the pantry for the ingredients. If I couldn’t find them I would keep looking for a recipe that we had all the ingredients to make.

One of my Mom’s specialities when I was growing up was Chocolate Chip pie. She found the recipe on the back of a bag of chocolate chips. She made it almost everytime we had company. She once  experimented by adding peanut butter chips to the recipe, and we loved this pie too.

I have made this pie twice in the last 7 days. I made it Friday night when we celebrated Matthew’s 2nd work anniversary and again for my good friend Millie yesterday. Millie’s family had eaten half the pie before I left. It is best served warm with a good vanilla ice cream. I usually buy Breyers all natural vanilla to put on top.

Here is the recipe for Chocolate Chip Pie:

2 large eggs
1 1/2 sticks of butter softened (don’t use margarine)
1/2 cup of white sugar
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 cup chocolate chips

1 pie crust

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and sugars. Add flour and mix. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into an unbaked pie crust. Bake for 55-60 minutes until a knife inserted halfway between the crust and the center comes out clean. You may want to put a piece of aluminum foil over the pie to keep the crust from getting too brown.

Enjoy!