Recipes

Here are the recipes for the brownies and fudge I made for dinner at Pat and Jill's last month. Enjoy.

HOT FUDGE

2/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup white Karo syrup

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup soft butter

Stir together in a saucepan and bring to a boil stirring constantly.  Cook to a firm ball stage stirring occasionally and then add:

1/2 cup canned milk

6-8 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips (I prefer Guitard brand)

Stir until smooth and serve over ice cream.  If you have difficulty stirring out the lumps of chocolate, you may blend with a hand blender or put it in a blender.

BROWNIES

4 eggs	1 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar	1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla	1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup (8 0z) butter	2 cups broken walnuts or pecans or mixture of both
4 oz unsweetened baking chocolate	1 cup Chocolate chips

Melt chocolate and butter together in pan over hot water or in microwave (be very careful not to overcook because chocolate burns very easily in microwave.  About 1 minute on high then stir till it is smooth.  If there are still lumps give it more time in increments of 15 seconds.  Whip eggs and sugar till light and lemon colored (about 2-3 minutes).  Add vanilla and chocolate that has cooled slightly.  Mix in dry ingredients and then spread in a buttered and floured 9” x 13” pan.  Sprinkle top with walnuts and pecans and chocolate chips.  Press lightly into the batter and bake at 350º for about 30-35 minutes.  It is best to cool completely before cutting.

 

This one time...

We graduated from college!

Firsties!

This post is so-called because it is the first one of the year 2012. Funny that it should be happening in June (I guess everyone has been pretty busy)!

Since it is the first post of the new year, let's talk about improvement. What goals do you have right now in terms of it? What do you wish you were you doing that you aren't. I will throw a couple of mine out there to help you get started:

• I am calling this summer "Matt's Summer Makeover" - this means getting to the gym and losing some weight that has haunted me for several years.
• MattyReads - I am going to start posting book reviews again.
• Writing - I will write for at least 30 minutes a day - more if I can handle it - to get a book written before the end of the year.

So there you go! Drop us a line and fill us in our your own goals. You stand a better chance of reaching them if you write them down or put them out there in the universe.