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Check it out at Boombox Gifts.com. I'm here today with Ali Wentworth. Ali is the author of the memoir and

essay collections, Allie in Wonderland and other tall tales, happily, Ali After and other

fairly true tales, and go ask Ali half-baked advice and free lemonade. As an actress, Ali starred

in films Jerry Maguire, Office Space, The Real Blonde,

and it's complicated,

and in TV shows like Nightcap, which she wrote and starred in, and sketch comedy show in Living Color. A native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of barred, she currently lives in New York City with her husband, George Stephanopoulos, and their two daughters. So welcome, Allie. Thanks so much for being on moms don't have time to read books.

So happy to be here.

So you mentioned in... two daughters. So welcome, Allie, thanks so much for being on moms, don't have time to read books.

So happy to be here. So you mentioned in one of your books that you have the best recipe ever for chocolate chip cookies. So before we do anything else, I have to know because I'm obsessed with

baking chocolate chip cookies and eating them. Well, here's the thing. I haven't told anybody the

recipe. And so my bestie, Mariska Hargitay, who is obsessed with it, I won't give her the recipe because I don't want her to make it and then not need me. I like the need. And so, and I also give it as Christmas presents. I give like eight frozen rolls. So if I gave you the recipe, I feel like it would hurt a lot of my female

relationships. Yeah. Okay. So maybe I shouldn't start our relationship in this way. Like,

coming in and ruining everything. I will, I will. Is there a secret? Is there a secret ingredient?

Or is it just the ratio of everything that makes them so good? It's the ratio of everything.

Okay. Which I think is very important. I use more butter than more people and I use sea salt. There's a few things. Okay, few tweaks. Yeah. I won't take. I won't take. I won't take. And you'll taste it and I'll get you addicted. There will be a want that I only I, it's like a, it's like a meth addict. Yeah. addict yeah yeah I am it's a similar thing it's not hard

to get me to yeah to the shirk no I am my friend or really they get angry at me because they say they I've given them 10 pounds but I say you have no self-discipline yeah just because I give you the cookie dough doesn't mean yeah I'm gonna give this to you now don't eat it yeah exactly You try and not do it.

In the stressful world, do not go for that in the freezer.

But yes.

But just if you need it there.

Yes. doesn't mean you have to eat. I'm going to give this to you now. Don't eat it. Yeah, exactly. You try and not do it. In the stressful world, do not go for that in the freezer. But yes.

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