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Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies based on Emeril Lagasse’s Recipe

I came across Emeril Lagasse’s Recipe for Warm Chocolate Chip Cookies with Vanilla Milk. I trust Emeril Recipes so it was worth trying for me. This recipe is different from the one I developed for chocolate chip cookies. The biggest differences are the amount of butter and browning the butter. The other big difference is that it is suggested that you use candy bar chocolate instead of chocolate chips…..I did change a few things based on what I had at home. The other change was the size of the cookies…Emeril says to portion the cookie balls at 2 ounces. I thought that was too much cookie for one serving so I cut the cookie ball size to one ounce.

See photo below.

Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies

The 4 bigger cookies are from 2 ounce cookie balls and the smaller ones are from one ounce cookie balls. Do whatever size cookie you want.

I got around 5 large cookies and at least 29 small cookies. If I did all small cookies that would have made at least 39 cookies. I do note that these cookies came out too soft and too gooey for me warm………Or maybe that is how my oven works after getting it fixed????……..and maybe you might prefer soft and gooey? ……I also didn’t make the vanilla milk suggested for dunking cookies.

I will say this recipe makes around 39 cookies

8 oz. unsalted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

4 oz turbino sugar

4 oz dark brown sugar’

2 oz white sugar

2 eggs

12 oz bread flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon sea salt flakes

6 oz milk chocolate candy bar broke into 1/2 inch squares

6 oz preferably dark chocolate bar broke into 1/2 inch squares (I used 6 oz, 60% chocolate chips)

sea salt flakes

Directions

Put a sauce pan on medium heat and add the butter. Cook till it browns and put to the side and let cool down to room temperature.

In a large bowl add the three sugars and then add the butter. Mix. Next add the vanilla, and eggs. Mix well. Next add the flour, baking soda, salt. Mix well. Then add the chocolate and mix well.

Roll this dough into two logs. You can bake in one hour or let sit over night in the refrigerator. But if you let it go over night the dough will need to sit out a bit to warm up because it will be too hard to roll into balls.

When ready to bake-

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Decide if you want 2 ounce balls for BIG cookies or one ounce balls for smaller cookies. Then go well spaced on a parchment lined sheet pan.

For small cookies they need 5 minutes (NOT DONE YET) on middle rack or 7 minutes for big cookies. NOW YOU NEED TO SPRINKLE THEM WITH SEA SALT AND PUT THEM BACK IN THE OVEN…….

For really soft melty cookies small cookies only need 4 or 5 more minutes and larger cookies need 5-6 minutes.

If you don’t want such soft cookies leave the cookies in a few minutes more till they look slightly browned.

A Special THANKS!!!!!!!! To Emeril Lagasse for sharing such a GREAT Recipe so I could do what I got here!

The Forking Truth

The FORKING Truth is that Facebook & Jetpack want A LOT OF MONEY from Food Bloggers that don’t make any money off Blogging

The FORKING Truth is that Facebook & Jetpack (a WordPress Plugin) wants a LOT of Money from food bloggers that don’t make a dime on their blog.

Recently I published a story on BBQ Mexicana. Facebook suggested me to pay them $91. for 385 views…….

Everyday they ask for a different amount of money for a different amount of views.

A few days latter-

Facebook asked for $168. for 11,149 views.

Then on another day-

Facebook asked for $147. for 15,465 views.

Jackpack doesn’t really ask for money on a daily basis but periodically they upset me.

Sometime in the last year or two I wasn’t able to “Like” other people’s blogs. They said I ran out of “free” likes and needed to pay them another $200. yearly to like other people’s blogs. Since I couldn’t “like” other people’s blogs many of those people stopped liking my blog. But also many of those people also discontinued their blogs…(I wonder why….only kidding)

I don’t know why or how but sometime latter I was able to “like’ blogs again but most of my old “blogger” friends are long gone now.

Now Jetpack wants more money from me again. They want $4.50 monthly so I can view my statistics.

I figure this is the reason why most people are switching to Pod Casts, You Tube, and Tic Tok.

I have to tell you I AM JUST SICK OF THIS! ……..(Thank You for listening…I feel slightly better now)

And this is what Facebook wants today.

And that’s The FORKING Truth

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El Nopal Mexican Grill – Neighborhood Type Mexican Restaurant NORTH LAS VEGAS NV

El Nopal Mexican Grill is a neighborhood type Mexican Restaurant located on the NORTH LAS VEGAS Restaurant row (Craig Road) Nevada. They offer much of your usual Mexican foods like soups, nachos, enchiladas, quesadillas, tacos, burritos, salads, burgers and more. Soft beverages, beer, and margaritas are offered. They have festive seating inside and a small patio outside.

They start you off with complimentary chips and salsa.

The salsa is good but VERY SPICY HOT!!!!!!!!!! The chips are average. We tried margaritas. They were made with fresh squeezed juice and do taste good but are light with alcohol.

They also give you fideo soup before your entrees.

It’s a chicken-tomato based broth with thin noodles in it.

For my main I tried a chicken fajita.

It’s a very large portion of food that can be two meals for some people. The chicken is tender and came on a sizzling skillet with beef peppers, tomatoes, onions, a jalapeƱo and this sauce…(that I can’t stomach) that brought it down for me. If this sauce was removed this could be great. This also came with rice, beans, guacamole, and chile of tortillas.

My husband tried the Asada Alambres (sizzling skillet with beef, ham, tomatoes, peppers, chorizo, onion, bacon, and cheese).

He thought that it was also made with the sauce that I didn’t like but he was able to eat this whole thing.

El Nopal Mexican Grill

955 W Craig Rd – 702-629-5610

You can find El Nopal Mexican Grill on Facebook.

The menu can be found on www.UberEats.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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