Brownies, brownies, and more brownies!

I love brownies.  I REALLY love brownies.  I always thought they were nice until I had my first daughter five years ago.  When I was in the hospital, my mother-in-law brought me fruit to munch on.  Strawberries were among the fare in the basket.  One look at them and I thought, "BROWNIES!".  When my brother-in-law came, he and his girlfriend offered to bring us some dinner from a shop nearby.  I asked if they could please bring me a brownie too and ever since I've been hooked! 

With this new found love came quite an intensive buying of box mixes.  "Brownies from scratch???  Is that possible???"  I didn't think it was within my grasp.  But, whenever I made the box variety, they would be almost burned on the edges but gooey in the middle (gross gooey, not yummy gooey).  I tried and tried to fix the problem.  Bake longer, bake shorter, higher temperature, lower temperature, moving the rack, and finally just dealing with either burned edges or using a spoon in the middle.

But then it happened: I LOOKED for a recipe for brownies!  Low and behold, on www.allrecipies.com I found the most wonderful, yummy, quick, foolproof recipe for brownies!  The best part?  No chemicals to try to turn it into something like what a brownie should be.  This morning, I remembered I still had one more box of mix in my cupboard.  I thought I'd try it since it was sitting there all lonely looking without its friends around anymore.  So, I helped it fulfill its destiny.  Yup....WAY better from scratch.  :o)