It’s the simple things in life that make me happy. Top of the list is peanut butter. Peanut Butter, Wine and Iced Lattes would sustain me on a deserted Island for a good long time (along with pulled pork, pork rillettes and a few short ribs). As a creature of habit, everyday around 3pm my body teeters on a hypochondriac, mind made, hypoglycemic sugar fit. Not unlike Cookie Monster, ME LOVE COOKIE. I need one every day. Usually, around or near 3pm. Frozen Yogurt sometime substitutes. Not often though. I am a bonafide cookie Connoisseur!

The best cookies in the world are no longer available to me since City Bakery has closed their Brentwood outpost. That was until I discovered the Rockenwagners (http://www.rockenwagner.com) Peanut Butter and Jam Cookie. It’s pretty simple, a hardcore peanut butter cookie with a giant strawberry jam thumbprint! PB &J? Who didn’t love that? That’s what you get in this cookie and perhaps why the emotional attachment to a cookie can be so instant. This is s find if ever there was one! Three Square Café on Abott Kinney and Rockenwagner Bakery on Washington both sell them!

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