Oatmeal Cookies - Grandma's Recipe

1 cup softened margarine or butter

3/4 cup brown sugar (packed tightly)

3/4 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp water

2 cups of flour 

1 cup chocolate chips (you can put in more if you want) (I like the Ghiradelli large dark chocolate chips - 65% Cocoa).

2 cups of oats

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Cream the butter and the sugar.  Add the eggs and mix well. Blend in the salt, vanilla, and water and mix well. Add flour slowly and blend well. Add the chocolate chips and then add the oats.  I make the dough fairly stiff by adding extra flour so that the cookies will be soft; but be careful that you don't add to much because the cookies won't taste right. You can start baking one batch and see how they turn out. If they spread out to thin, you can add a little more flour.  You can vary the recipe by adding raisins and cinammon, M & M's, or anything else you wanted to try.

Bake at 350 degree Fahrenheit for about 9-12 minutes (depending on your oven). You want the cookies to just have a little touch of brown, but not much.  If they are too brown, they are still good, but they are more crunchy.  Drop dough on cookie sheet that has been prepared with PAM spray.