Chocolate Chip Cookies

What are the best chocolate chip cookies? For me, the dependable recipe is the Toll House bag chocolate chip recipe! It's been reliable and delicious, making delicious and soft chocolate chip cookies. Buy the Toll House semi-sweet chocolate chips and cut the recipe out of the back of the bag. If you take them out right when they are golden on the edges and let the cookies sit on the sheet for another minute, then they come out soft and chewy in the center.

Recipe: http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/18476/Original-NESTL%C3%89-TOLL-HOUSE-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies/detail.aspx

Tips:

*Use the light colored cookie sheets. The dark ones tend to over-brown the edges. (http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=16794139&RN=870&)

*Use unsalted butter. The recipe doesn't mention this, but you are adding salt per the recipe so you should bake with unsalted butter.

Has anyone made the Nordstrom chocolate chip cookie recipe?! I might check it out next year!

Easy Bruschetta Recipe

Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 7 med-large vine tomatoes Diced (OR use 4 vine and 4 roma tomatoes)

Garlic – 1 medium clove (crushed)

Onion – ½ large purple onion diced

Olive Oil – extra virgin olive oil – 3 tablespoons

White Wine Balsamic Vinegar – 2 tablespoons (add additional to taste)

Regular Balsamic Vinegar – ½ -1 tablespoon

Fresh Basil chopped – 1 – 1.5 tablespoons chopped (I prefer this chopped in the food processor. Using fresh basil is essential)

Salt (to taste – probably at least ¼ tsp)

Pepper (just a little for taste)

How To:

Combine all ingredients in a bowl, let sit for an hour and serve!

I like to make the bruschetta at least an hour before serving and then leave it out so it’s room temperature. Serve w/ toasted sliced baguette. If you add too much salt, just add an additional diced tomato. Roma tomatoes produce less juice, so if you would like less liquid, then use 1/2 roma and 1/2 vine tomatoes in the mixture.