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I love cookies. This is the all-purpose cookie recipe we use at our house. One of the ingredients is "1 ½ cups of raisins, nuts, chocolate chips, sunflower seeds, and/or candy, in any combination," so the recipe can be modified to your tastes. (I like a half cup chocolate chip, one-quarter cup raisin, one-quarter cup nut ratio, myself.)
Another variation possible is in how finely you chop the ingredients. When my partner and I make it, we chop the nuts very, very finely so they become a coarse meal, because he likes the taste of nuts without the texture of nuts. (Weird, I know.) It makes the cookies a little heavier than when our housemate makes them, because he likes the nuts more coarsely chopped (as do I).
Use real butter. And unrefined sugar. If you can't get unrefined, use brown sugar: the darker, the better.
½ cup (1 stick) butterCream the butter and sugar together. Add the egg and mix well. Add vanilla and salt and beat until well incorporated.
Add the flour and baking powder, mix well. Add the oats, mix well. Add the other ingredients. If you are using finely chopped nuts, mix them in first, then the rest.
Form into small balls and press them onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350° F for 10 minutes. Cool for two minutes, then remove to cooling rack. Makes approximately 1½ dozen.