Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• all-purpose flour
  1½ cups
• baking soda
  ½ tsp
• salt
  ½ tsp
• (1 stick) unsalted butter

  melted
  ¼ pound
• sugar (I use vanilla sugar

  made by storing used vanilla bean pods in the sugar jar)
  ½ cup
• tightly packed dark brown sugar
  ¾ cup
• vanilla extract
  1 tsp
• vanilla bean (split the bean lengthwise with a paring knife

  scrape the seeds out of one half, & save the other half for a future batch)
  ½ unit
• egg

  at room temperature
  1 large
• bittersweet chocolate chips
  7 oz