chocolate chip cookies

I keep trying to make awesome chocolate chip cookies, and while I can make fairly decent ones, I think for the first time, I made some awesome ones. I used the tollhouse recipe and did all the mixing by hand. I changed a few things, so here are the details:

2 eggs
1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla

(beat eggs and vanilla together in a bowl, set aside)

2 bars of bittersweet chocolate
3/4 cup of pecans

(chop the pecans and the chocolate and mix together in a bowl, set aside)

2-1/4 cups flour. (I used a mix of AP flour and some bread flour)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon table salt

(I food processed the flour, soda and salt, to aerate and sift it)

3/4 cup light brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar

(mixed the sugars to combine evenly)

2 sticks of butter (from fridge to microwave for 20-30 seconds, to just soften)

I mixed the butter into the sugar until it was nice and creamy, it took a while and my arms got really tired.

I added the egg mixture, in two batches, making sure I combined it fully between the two.

I slowly mixed in the flour, in at least 3 steps, making sure I got it all mixed together good before I added more. my right arm was dead by this point, but I soldiered on!

I stirred in the chocolate and nuts. the dough looked amazing. I scooped it on to the cookie sheets with a tea spoon, making them heaping and balling them together just a little bit with my hands.

I baked them for 10 to 12 minutes, turning the pans after 5 minutes to make up for hot spots in my oven. I let them cool on the cookie sheets for a few minutes so that I could just pick them off and put them on the cooling racks without them falling apart. and I didn't have to dirty a spatula.

damn, they sure are good.