Announcement: A New Blog!

I haven't blogged very consistently in a while because there has been too much on my mind and I haven't known how to even begin to put it into words. I get a little weird when it comes to categorizing things...if there is too much of everything all together, it just feels wrong. There's a place for everything, right? :) So my brain has been a mess of a lot of thoughts, but one of the biggest things on my mind lately is FOOD. Yep. It's pretty well-known, to anyone who knows me even a little, that I like food. Specially sweet food. Specially brownies. If you sit down for a nice chat with me over coffee and brownies, you pretty much become my instant friend. It's that easy! Lol. Seriously, though, a lot of change has been happening in our household concerning food...including, no more brownies. WHAAAT!!?? Well, that's only partially true, because I discovered how to make healthy brownies that are pretty good and the best part...I can eat as many as I want because they're healthy! :)

So, back to having a place for everything...I've decided to start a new blog where I can write all about our family's food journey and adventures. I will still have this blog for those wife/mom/spirituality ramblings, but I want to separate the food topic because it's a big thing for me right now that is taking a lot of energy, thought, planning, and re-learning and I figure there might be others who could benefit from my own learning in that area. So what's this big change and what's all this about healthy brownies?? I guess you'll just have to hop on over to www.mynewapron.blogspot.com and find out!

Brownie Pudding!

I never need chocolate. That's too simple. I need brownies! And some days, like today, I actually wake up in the morning with brownies on my mind. Sadly I forgot that I'm out of butter. However there is an amazing recipe called Brownie Pudding that doesn't call for butter or eggs! It's my savior when I don't have those key ingredients or a way to get to the store. Slightly similar to bread pudding...but all chocolate! And so easy...here you go:

Ingredients: 

1 cup flour

3/4 cup sugar

2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup milk

2 tbsp cooking oil

1 tsp vanilla

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups boiling water

Directions:

Grease an 8x8x2-inch baking pan and set aside. In a medium bowl stir the flour, sugar, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder and salt. Stir in the milk, oil and vanilla. Pour batter into prepared baking pan.

In a small bowl mix the brown sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa powder. Stir in the boiling water and slowly pour mixture over batter.

Bake at 350 F for 40 minutes. Cook on a wire rack for 45 minutes. Serve warm, pouring sauce from pan over the cake. Best served with vanilla ice-cream! (6-8 servings)