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Last week I said goodbye to my friend Seth Stutman, who has been the co-host of Mass Appea<\/em><\/a>l as long as I have been appearing on the show. Seth has always been a generous host, willing to make his guests look good and display their wit\u2014and I have come to think of him as a dear friend.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGoodbye\u201d might be too strong a word; I hope to see Seth again in the future! I won\u2019t be seeing him, or appearing with him, on Mass Appeal<\/em>, however. He was ready for a change and has found another job in Western Massachusetts that will display his intelligence and people skills. The new folks are lucky to have him!<\/span><\/p>\n I will continue to appear on the show with the lively Lauren Zenzie and her new co-host, Danny New. They are very, very young\u2014but I don\u2019t hold that against them! I keep hoping a bit of their youth will rub off on me. I\u2019ll miss dear Seth, however.<\/span><\/p>\n On his last show, three of his favorite cooks came in to prepare party food. I made the cookies below, which my friend Janice gave\u00a0me when I got my Ph.D. They may look familiar; they are a version of the infamous inauthentic but delicious Neiman Marcus Chocolate-Chip Cookies<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n When I noted during the segment that the recipe made complex cookies, Seth responded that I myself was a complex cookie. Really, how could one not love this boy?<\/span><\/p>\n After the show, the hosts, the guests, and the production people gathered to nibble and to wish Seth well. I sang him a slightly altered version of \u201cYou Made Me Love You,\u201d because that\u2019s how I feel about him.<\/span><\/p>\n I may seem\u00a0a bit TOO sentimental in the video below, but I maintain that there\u2019s nothing wrong with a little sentiment!<\/span><\/p>\n The Cookies<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 1\/2 cup (1 stick) sweet butter at room temperature Instructions:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Cream together the butter and the sugars. Beat in the egg, followed by the baking powder and salt. Stir in the flour; then the oatmeal, pecans, and chocolate.<\/span><\/p>\n Shape the dough into balls\u2014either 6 large ones or 12 medium ones. Place them on parchment- or silicone-covered cookie sheets, flatten them with your hand (they don\u2019t really spread), and bake them until the brown nicely, at least 12 to 14 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the sheets for a couple of minutes; then remove them to a wire rack to cool.<\/span><\/p>\n Makes 6 to 12 cookies\u2014or even more smaller ones!<\/span><\/p>\n And now the video\u2026.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Graduation Day Chocolate-Chip Cookies for Seth<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n1\/2 cup sugar
\n1\/2 cup brown sugar
\n1 egg
\n1\/2 teaspoon baking powder
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\n1 cup flour
\n1-1\/4 cups blended oatmeal (oatmeal pulverized into a powder in your blender)
\n1\/2 cup pecans, also pulverized (optional but good)
\n1 cup chocolate chips
\n2 ounces milk chocolate, cut into small chunks<\/span><\/p>\n