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Milk Bar’s Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

These soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies by Christina Tosi are the fastest homemade cookie recipe I’ve ever made, and they come together in just one bowl, no mixer required. The hit of flaky sea salt really sends them over the top.

Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Because it’s Monday. That’s why.

Mondays call for a stiff cup of coffee in the morning and possibly a martini with three olives to cap off the night. But homemade chocolate chip cookies — they’re in order no matter what time of the day.

Last Friday was the official chocolate chip day of the year. But since my sugar rolodex was on hiatus, I missed it. Ironically, I had this chocolate chip cookie recipe ready to rock and roll for today.

I may be a day or two late, but this cookie is FAR from a dollar short. Make that a chocolate chip short. Hardly. Because this baby is PACKED with chips. In fact, the amount of dough pretty much comes secondary to the number of chips, making for an extra rich, soft, chewy chocolate chip cookie with crispy edges.

All I did was add a sprinkle of flaky salt and I have a new favorite.continue to the recipe… about Milk Bar’s Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Salted Chocolate Peanut Butter Krispie Treats

Rice Krispie treats get jazzed up with creamy peanut butter, a layer of smooth dark chocolate, and a sprinkling of flaky salt, for the ultimate marriage of chocolate and peanut butter!

My family has a favorite quote from The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. It’s become our mantra for how to lead life.

“One day your hair dryer is working just fine. The next day it’s sending out sparks to beat the band.”

Basically, things are going just swell. Swimmingly even. And then in the blink of an eye…everything changes.

That’s what happened to the food blogging community when we learned this past week of the passing of a much respected member, Chocolate Chocolate and More’s Joan Hayes.

In celebration of her life, and somehow symbolically coinciding with National Chocolate Day, food bloggers are joining together to toast Joan and her influence the only way we can. With recipes from near, far, and everywhere in between. With recipes featuring chocolate. It’s what Joan’s wishes would have been and what we’re here to fulfill.

continue to the recipe… about Salted Chocolate Peanut Butter Krispie Treats

5-Minute Blistered Shishito Peppers Recipe

A hot cast iron pan creates the perfect char for this bite-sized blistered pepper appetizer tossed with flavored salts and fresh squeezed lemon.

I’m lucky when I pull the rabbit out of the hat. Those are the days I count my lucky stars and fist pump the universe.

I’m a bit of a planner, but I’m also a go with the flow kind of gal. I like schedules, but I don’t feel like I always have to stick to them. Impulse is the key to some of life’s best adventures.

I have a bevy of recipes on the list to share. But when I’m inspired by food that is totally fresh (like picked this morning at 6 a.m.) plans change. For the better.

Try it sometime. I’m betting you’ll agree.