2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
One 12-oz pkg (2 cups) Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup chopped Walnuts

Have all ingredients at room temperature. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt: set aside.

In large mixer bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla: beat until creamy. You can't Over beat this.

Beat in eggs.

Gradually add flour mixture. Don't Over Mix! This is what will toughen or harden your cookies. Don't break the flour gluten down.

Stir in Chocolate Chips and Walnuts.

To keep from burning the bottom of your cookies or over baking, double pan!

Drop out mixture with a tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheets or pan. I prefer jelly roll pans, as cookie sheets are too thin.

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Start checking cookies after 9 minutes. They will take about a minute longer to bake using double pans.

Allow to cool before removing from pan to wax paper or foil. Allow Pan to cool before reusing to keep raw cookie dough from spreading.

These keep about 5 days in a sealed container or zip bag. If they start to dry out, place a half a slice of bread in with them.

A word about baking Any type cookie...

Do your cookies always come out of the oven almost burnt on the bottoms before they are baked in the center?

Solve this easily! Go invest in Decent baking sheet pans, at least Two of them. Buy what are called 'Jelly Roll Pans,' which are simply half a sheet cake pan in size.

When baking cookies, 'double pan' them. Place the pan with the cookies in an empty pan the same size. That's it! The double layer of metal will keep your cookie 'bottoms' from burning. It may take a couple of minutes longer to bake a doubled pan of cookies, but no more over baked cookies!

Also Never Ever over mix cookie dough. You can beat the daylights out of that butter/sugar part, but once you add Flour, just mix it well, then stop. Over mixing after adding the flour will make your cookies...tough enough to build a wall.