Wasting Away

I should be going to bed. Instead I'm making tea and picking up a book and wondering:

Should I have a smidgen of coffee ice cream? Or little bowl of left-over berries and cream? Or should I go do 100 sit-ups to start making up for what I ate over the weekend? (Too bad there aren't any cookies left.)

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Here are my chocolate chunk cookies, which disappeared almost while they were still warm:

2 1/4 cups flour (I like unbleached)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
Sift that together and set it aside. Break out the mixer.
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter (NOT margarine, you must trust me. If you want healthy, go elsewhere.)
Cream the butter and sugar. Then add and beat until fluffy
2 eggs

Add
1 teaspoon really good vanilla (I recommend this, a double-strength vanilla.)
and beat that in, then add the flour stuff and stir gently until almost blended.

Now dump in
1 1/2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate (the best you can get, obviously) cut into chunks.
Some of it will shatter into tiny shards -- that's fine. Scoop it all up and use it. If you only have, say, a 4 ounce bar of chocolate then just add chocolate chips until you have enough. It's important to have at least some chunks though.

Anyway, by the time the chocolate chunks are stirred in so is the rest of the flour. Scoop it onto cookie sheets in whatever size globs you find appropriate, bake in your (oops) preheated 375 degree oven for 9 minutes. They should be golden but not brown. Except for those browner ones, of course, which I'm happy to share with you.

This is my own recipe so if you don't like it go right ahead and blame me.

For a good oatmeal cookie check out Divine Angst. They look excellent; they have chocolate but no nuts or raisins.

I'm comma-happy tonight. I went back and took out half a dozen but I'm sure there are still extras lurking about wreaking their comma mayhem.