Brownies

It seems like these days we can't end dinner without having a little dessert. Or maybe a lot. Tonight, Ryan made tasty brownies with chocolate chips. They were a smidge overbaked but who cares, it's CHOCOLATE and by default DELICIOUS!

On a slightly related note, we went to LA this weekend for mother's day. My mom has been wanting a new laptop so I went to Circuit City with her on Sat and got her a new Compaq with 250GB. Hopefully, it'll take her a while to use up all that disk space. Somehow, she is just as capable of digital clutter on her computer as she is of physical clutter in her home. In addition to the laptop, I bought a new camera that I've been eyeing for a while. It's a Canon PowerShot SX100IS, which has many more manual features than your standard point-and-shoot, while still being small enough to be practical. And of course it's much more affordable than SLRs. I've been having a lot of fun so far setting up food shots and fiddling with settings. Unfortunately, after all these purchases, including a recent lapse into buying a new bag, I am feeling rather poor and will probably be forced to eat fried rice for a while. So sad... but at least my food pictures will look nice!



Bombshell Brownies
Courtesy of AllRecipes.com

1 cup butter, melted
3 cups white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 baking dish. Combine the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each, until thoroughly blended. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Gradually stir the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture until blended. Stir in the chocolate morsels. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared baking dish. Bake in preheated oven until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove, and cool pan on wire rack before cutting.