Great flavor with less calories. Yum! Recipe from SparkPeople.
Happy New Year! It’s a leap year. One more day to keep a resolution.
Off topic: I just spilled my entire cup of coffee on the kitchen floor. That’s annoying, but I refilled it with what was left in the pot…and burnt my tongue because I forgot the coffee maker, well, keeps the coffee HOT! Yup, I spat it out on the just-wiped floor.
Happy 2012! I promise to write a post each day.
“This looks like Chuck E. Cheese’s pizza.”
That’s a compliment, right? I can go national now. 
Recipe:
whole wheat pita
pasta sauce
shredded Mexican cheese
a few pieces of pepperoni
Bake at 450 deg for about 8 minutes. Enjoy! Kids do.
No matter how many times I have baked these according to Fine Cooking’s Ultimate Fudgy Brownie recipe, I managed to change it this time. One change was purposeful because I was running low on granulated sugar. I needed 2-3/4 cups , but only used 2-cups and substituted 3/4-cups sugar with 1/2-cup agave syrup. I also lowered the usual temperature by 25 degrees, as recommended by the syrup bottle. I baked it for 32-minutes.
The difference? The top did not crust, but it is fudgy. I also added 1/2-tsp cayenne pepper to add some spice to it. Really good.
Then I realized I only used 1-1/2 bars of unsalted butter. Hmmm, not a bad thing. In fact, these brownies were easier to cut. A hit in my book.
The sneaks I got…
The sneaks my daughter got. Clearly she’s cooler.
It’s funny how my brain works, or doesn’t work. I can remember random things and important things, but not simple things sometimes. Out of sight, out of mind rings true here. I had put the cupcake carrier on the island, but my husband decided to move it to the corner by the microwave. I heard him tell me and I saw it myself. Of course, I forgot them and drove back midway for them. It’s also interesting when I actually thought of it vs. getting to the party and then realizing it.
A year after I got my first iPhone, I realized it was my BFF. It made mommy hood so much easier and better! I remember how I resisted getting to know the iPad and when iPad 2 became available, it was a no-brainer of a gift for me from the kids for Mother’s Day. These are such amazing gadgets. The iPod is another great invention. We have a couple of those, but not the teensy weensy ones that would surely get lost in my pocketbook. I’m always telling my husband, this man is just brilliant! In addition to being a brave genius, he seemed to have been a great leader-one who realizes and accepts when he can’t fulfill the duties anymore. He has been an inspiration to many. For me, I am sure I can go on and on singing praises about the products as I am typing this post on my Macbook that is as old as my son, but I’d rather take some time to get more inspired by a man who had a vision and shared it with the world, then drastically changed the way we live; who enabled us to be even more creative; and who showed us that life is too short and out of our control. “And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” -Steve Jobs
Yes, being a stay-at-home-mom is worth every moment to me.
RIP, Mr. Jobs, and thank you.
