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Pictured Recipe: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oven-Fresh Brownie & Cookie Recipes

We didn’t buy the house. The brownies, as seductive as they were, could not overcome our more rational selves. A few weeks later we took a look at a different house and—surprise!—there was a freshly baked loaf of bread sitting in a bread machine. We decided to build our own home.

In our new house, the kitchen segues into the dining area, which segues into the living room. Sauté onions while preparing dinner and you’re reminded of that meal the next morning. Because it’s a tight, superinsulated structure, smells linger, and with them, memories. If you couldn’t tell from the muddy mudroom and the bookshelves that are full to overflowing, our house is in a permanent state of relaxation.

—Sue Halpern’s latest book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Frontlines of Memory Research, has just been published by Harmony Books.

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