chocolate sundae

A summertime classic --

In a cute dish, scoop out some ice cream.

• Cover with Hersheys chocolate syrup.
  

(Click the Hersheys link to learn about the school benefiting needy children which is the biggest shareholder of Hersheys.)

• Sprinkle with granola or graham cracker crumbs or nuts, if you wish.

• Serve the ice cream sundaes to your famished diners immediately!

Chocolate chip pecan cookies

Okay, . . . these are really great cookies by one great cookie chef: Boo. She claims to have made at least fifty batches of these infamous cookies within recent history, all to grand applause.

She more-or-less follows the recipe on the back of the Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip package. But i think her great secret is in the timing of the cooking process: not too long and not too short.

The end result is a firm cookie, but not at all crisp. The innards are soft and the chocolate is gooey. The pecans were sort of tossed in as an almost afterthought. I thought they added a lot!

Review:
5 forks for excellent flavor
1 fork for presentation (Who cares how they are presented? These are chocolate chip cookies we're talking about! Dig in!)