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Double Kate Brownies

March 4, 2015 Leave a Comment

making brownies from https://test.pleasepassthepeas.com

Ever since he started walking, E. has been really into helping around the house.

Every morning he helps unload the dishwasher and every afternoon we walk to the end of the driveway and I lift him up so that he can open the mailbox and pull out any mail.

When Paul puts on his shoes, E. helps with the laces. And more than once, when I am getting dressed, he has taken it upon himself to rummage through the dresser, pick out clean socks for me and reach up as high as he can to lay them out on the foot of the bed.

Whenever he hears me open the baby gate that blocks off the laundry room, he drops everything and comes running, calling, “Help laundry! Help laundry!”

On Saturday, we made brownies together. It was the first time he has really helped much in the kitchen. We lack a sturdy stool to help him reach the counter, so I measured everything out into little bowls and set them on the kitchen table so that E. could dump and stir.

He was thrilled…. 

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Darn Good One-Bowl Brownies

October 13, 2014 Leave a Comment

Darn Good One-bowl Brownies from https://test.pleasepassthepeas.com

I stumbled across this brownie recipe a week or so ago when I was reading another food blog and noticed that one of the comments referenced a brownie newsletter.

That’s my kind of newsletter.

A click or two later and I was on the website of Darn Brownies, a brilliant effort to give away free brownies to unsuspecting passersby.

“There are no tricks,” founder Chris Knight writes on his website. “You can take the brownie and run. Our main goal is just to give away a snack and help people have a better day.”

I loved the kind and quirky concept. Plus, the brownies looked pretty good too.

Knight describes Darn Brownies as “a movement to do something good for no good reason.”

Anyone can become a member. He just asks that you try to think up and launch a simple but friendly project in your hometown too.

Generally speaking, I’m not much of a joiner. In fact, as I sit here writing this, I’m having trouble thinking of any other group to which I have an actual, official membership. But I wasted no time at all signing up to become a member of the Darn Brownies movement, in large part because I wanted to get my hands on the (members only) recipe for those thick, dark brownies…. 

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