Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Everyone should have a good, solid chocolate chip cookie recipe in their baking arsenal.  I've been using this particular recipe  for around 3 years now, and it's by far the best one I've ever tried -- even better than the Toll House recipe.  One reason I like it is because even though it's called "The Chewy", you can adjust how chewy your cookies actually are just by altering the amount of butter you use.  (I discovered this totally on accident, by the way.)

It's an easy recipe to mix up, and the dough can be portioned out, frozen, and taken out of the freezer to bake as well, if you're into that sort of "rationing" thing....doesn't happen around here, but if you're able to save some for later, more power to you!

For this most recent batch that I made, I was a bit concerned that they weren't going to come out.  The dough was REALLY dense by the time I was done mixing, far more so than usual.  I was following a slight variation of the recipe from the one that is online, so I thought that might account for the difference.

As it turned out, though, these were the best of any of the recent batches I've made!  Really yummy, if I do say so myself. Jon's initial assessment of "Pretty good," was upgraded to "Really good" upon a later taste test.