Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

3/4 granulated sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup butter (softened)

1 large egg

2 1/2 cup all purpose flour 

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp  salt

2 cup of semi sweet chocolate ( I used the toll house brand) 

1 cup of chopped walnut (optional) 

Preheat oven to 375

In a mixing bowl ...cream together your sugars, butter and eggs until fully incorporated then add in your flour, salt and baking soda. Then add in your chocolate chip and lightly mix ( at this point you can add in your walnuts if you prefer...my ids doesn't like nuts so I usually make a separate batch with nuts for hubby and myself ) 

On a baking sheet  lined with parchment paper or a silpat..drop a little ice cream scoop of cookie dough about 2 in apart. Bake for 10 minutes. Take out of oven and let it cool for about 5 minutes in cookie sheet then transfer to a cooling rack. 

5 Spice Chicken

Ingredients:
1 whole fryer
1 t of 5 spice
1 t garlic powder
1 t Tony Chachere's
1/2 t cracked pepper
Mix all the seasonings together

Clean out whole fryer
Then pat dry
Butter the fryer really good .. Then sprinkle with your seasonings really well

Place in a deep baking pan cuz the chicken will render plenty of juice

Cover chicken and bake @ 350 for 1 hr then uncover bake for another 45 minutes
Basting once with the juice that the chicken had render before sticking back into the oven

Cut into pieces and serve
Garnish with some whole cilantro n sliced up cucumber
Serve with jasmine rice

For the sauce:
1 C of the chicken juice and 2 T of Soy Sauce n a pitch of sugar ... Can also squeeze in some lemon juice for that tangy sauce
If u like it spicy squeeze some srirache into the sauce
Enjoy