Marsha's Really Good Chocolate Chip cookies

From the mother of the bride; Really Good Chocolate Chip Cookies

Traditionally, when the kids were all younger, on their  first day of school when they walked in the door, this is what they would come home to and smell from the oven.   I would use the Nestles "Original Toll House Chocolate Chip cookie" recipe.
However, I did a 'taste test" with my friends recipe. It is the same ingredients just different amounts.  My friend refers to them as "Really Good Chocolate Chip Cookies".  She cut the recipe out of a newspaper over 20 years ago! ~ Marsha 

1 stick margarine plus 1 stick butter
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 extra large eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
24 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

Cream margarine  with sugars until light. Beat in the vanilla and eggs until smooth.  Mix together flour, baking soda and salt.    Add the chocolate chips and nuts. stir to mix.  Drop onto lined (parchment paper) baking sheets, bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes, turning sheets end for end and trading oven racks (to to bottom) at the halfway point.  Remove from oven and slide parchment paper off sheets with the cookies on it and leave until cookies are barely cool enough to handle, then transfer to racks to cool.  Makes approx. 5 dozen cookies.