Reading this title blind and trying to make any sense out of it is impossible. I mean, alchemy I can define, but what the fuck is a Mookie? My imagination strains to see some hominid swinging through the branches. “Hay Look! it’s a mookie!” a fabled creature? or something else? I must confess that I was leading you down a dark path, when indeed mookies are made of goodness and light. They are in fact a staple food stuff at my house and have been imagined by my lovely other, over and over again in countless variations.

The ingredients for Mookie’s vary based on availability of course but what you end up with isn’t exactly a cookie, it’s something more. More + Cookie = Mookie. But what you really need to have a picture in your head of, is the process. A couple days ago I mentioned that we should make Mookie’s and Chicapee decided to instruct me on the art and science of same. The first thing that happens is that all the various ingredients are set out on a table. There are bags of mysterious herbs and natural elements, powders and potions. There are large containers of bulk vegetable protein and various flowers of buckwheat and moon rocks.

Once the materials are gathered, the lab is setup and the careful measuring of ingredients begins. I am given instructions on which elements to mix, in which quantities and I begin the process of blending the dry ingredients. Over several hours, the combining of specific ingredients in specific order yields a dough with the consistency not unlike a cookie dough. These then are separated onto sheets for the heating or yielding process. Once complete, the Mookies are ready to be packaged and certified.

What is most amusing, other than the sight of Chicapee as a mad scientist is the very notion that she was teaching me how to make Mookies. It would appear the process is a little more complex than I anticipated.