Thursday, December 8, 2022

The Internet, Where We All Learn From Each Other

Sometimes the information learned is substantial and thought-provoking. Sometimes it's less earth shattering, but still important.

This morning after breakfast I learned on a forum that December 8th is National Brownie Day. A couple of hours later Catalyst at Oddball Observations offered the same news. After two mentions how could I not act on the information?

Before dinner I had to run to the grocery store. In addition to the items on my list a large frosted brownie from the bakery department added itself to my bag. Although I could have made a whole pan for the price of the slice, there are only two of us in the house. I knew that if I made a pan way too many of those brownies would find their way into my mouth, so buying a pre-made one was my way of exhibiting some portion control.

Dinner was a clean-out-the refrigerator main dish salad with chopped napa cabbage, roasted sweet potatoes and freekeh, tossed with a honey lime vinaigrette with hints of garlic and jalapeno and topped with chopped cashews. Hubby Tony plated and served. He also carbonated some water and made a pot of decaf coffee to go with the star of the show dessert.

All was good.

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18 comments:

  1. I think you NEED another brownie!
    And I think we have several boxes of brownie mix. Time to go check and then celebrate.
    And who put that yellow thing in your vodka?

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    1. It's fizzy water with lemon. That much vodka would put me under the table :-)

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  2. Very creative dinner from leftovers. Yum on dessert.

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  3. National Brownie Day, I like that. Since I am a widow I don't bake treats unless I have an event to attend, too many calories would keep tempting me.

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    1. I give you permission to celebrate it whenever it works into your schedule :-)

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  5. Not sure how I missed National Brownie Day, but I had recently made my son a Oatmeal Crusted Peanut Butter Brownie Pie. I was a little early, but we can say that I celebrated.

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    1. Holy cow, that sounds good! Hope the recipe shows up on your blog at some point.

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  6. We love brownies but I rarely make them because whenever I do I usually add ice cream and chocolate syrup! A lot of time I buy a single dessert for us to split! That salad sounds delicious!

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  7. And after such a healthy dinner you deserve that brownie.

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    1. Thanks. Can I contact you next time I need to justify eating sweets? :-)

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  8. There is now a Day for Everything!

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    1. Pretty much. And a lot of them make for good blog fodder.

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