A cookie story :)

Hi, my name is Sarah and I have a cookie problem.

Late at night, after having eaten a healthy meal of lean meat, garnished with nuts and twigs, and rounded with the one-glass-of-red-wine the heart conscious survive on.

I HUNGER for a cookie. The sweetness... the chewiness...

I wander through my house, looking, hoping, dreaming I will find a cookie that has somehow escaped my earlier hunts. This is an often fruitless hunt, usually in resulting the much needed second-glass-of-red-wine. Sometimes I find a marshmallow and stud it with chocolate chips, in a depressing attempt to sate the cookie need. Rarely is the hunt successful.

But now I will have a new focus during these late evening searches!

Rainier Washington!

(That is south of Olympia and Lacey WA by about a 20 minute drive. Out in the country.)

No, I have not moved. But I have FOUND the cookies of my dreams.

As I drive through Rainier on an almost weekly basis, I have noticed a charming old-town style sign on the south side of Main. It announces "Main Street Cookie Company". But I am mostly in Rainier on Tuesdays... which is the day the Company is sadly not open.

But this week, the cookie gods were with me! I was in Rainier on a Wednesday!

So I stopped. Of course. The first thing that caught my eye was the sign on the door for other cookie-hunters, calmly reassuring us that cookies are available across the street.

Then I stepped inside.

Ahhh- you know that smell of lovely fresh baked cookies, right? I now know the feeling of cookie mecca. There were ONLY cookies in the case. That is it. Not donuts, not bagels, not banana nut bread. Just cookies! Chocolate chip (of course), chocolate with frosting, butter cookies with pink frosting or lemon frosting, cookies with nuts and many more.

There was one more sign, to tell me I had indeed found The Right Place.

"We Bake with BUTTER" was proudly proclaimed across the far wall. (And rightly so! Have you ever tried an oatmeal raisin cookie made without butter? shudder!) I was also greeted by the cookie elves, merrily packing the boxes of cookies to be delivered to the many coffee shops and restaurants in the Thurston County area.

I think it was obvious that I had a problem. I may have had a slightly glazed look as I introduced myself and asked a million questions. They simply pulled out cookie after cookie and placed it neatly in a little bag, chatting with me all the while. And a cup of drip coffee. Cream please. Then I left in a daze, back out looking at houses.

I chose to eat the Chocolate Chip cookie on my drive back to Olympia. It was huge, It was buttery. It had melty chocolate chips in. It SATISFIED me. In fact, I ATE ONLY ONE delicious cookie as I drove home. And I saved one for my friend (chocolate with icing). And I brought one home to my husband (butter with lemon frosting). And I saved the last one for breakfast the next day (oatmeal with nuts and fruit).

I no longer wander the kitchen searching for the cookies. I know where they live. Now I have a bigger problem. I know where they live! Thankfully, Rainier is simply a 20 mile bike ride away, where I will have earned the cookie and coffee I long for.

If you live in SW Washington and need directions on locating this wonderful shop, you are welcome to shoot me a note: sarahnopp@remax.net. The shop's phone number is in the top picture, or down below.

And here is the link to the Google Map:

Main Street Cookie Company
112 Binghampton St W Rainier, WA 98576
(360) 446-0232

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