Jetlag
So, first, you make oatmeal cookie dough and spread it in the pan. Then you make brownie batter….
… and pour that over the top.
When baked, you get a two-layer cookie with oatmeal and brownie intermingling in the most mouth-watering way. The idea is inspired by the FatWitch breakfast brownies, but the recipe is my own. Or, well, really, they’re the recipes that came on the boxes, but putting them together was my idea. The Baker’s Chocolate brownie recipe is still my favorite, and the oatmeal cookie part was adapted from the oatmeal-raisin cookie recipe on the Quaker Oatmeal container. (No raisins, no cinnamon, but otherwise the same.)
It makes for a really thick cookie (which my Dad insists on calling “cake,” sigh), which is why I baked it in my Edge Pan. I didn’t trust it to bake evenly in a regular, rectangular pan … although, really, it probably would have been fine. And, besides, I LOVE my Edge pan! Everyone should have one (grin).
This, plus making pot roast, is basically how I filled my day. (The pot roast? Browned in the pan, and then cooked in a combination of beef stock, red wine, and a splash of tomato sauce, since we were out of tomato paste; seasoned with a bay leaf, parsley, Worchestershire sauce, a dash of allspice, a little minced onion, and salt and pepper. Yum.)
Our house smells good today!
There was some spinning, too…. And, of course, some reading. (Yes, I finished Fool’s Errand, which I started yesterday afternoon, and am now onto yet another book.) We got Chappy out for a walk, too–at least it was sunny today.
Which at least helped the agony of Daylight Saving Time. Sure, I got to sleep later than usual because it was Sunday, but it still felt like I was getting up an hour early (and tomorrow is going to be agony). And then, the sun was glaring in my eyes when I tried to sit with Chappy this morning . . . it didn’t get bearable until after lunch. And when I came upstairs to check my email around 3:30/4:00, the sun was angled just so coming in my bedroom window, so that it was glaring in my eyes. Sigh. And I can already tell you that it’s going to be in my eyes when I head downstairs after my shower, too, which is going to make reading, knitting, and watching television challenging until the sunsets. (Because we have a very loose-weave drape on our sliding doors, and it does NOT block the sun.)
I tell you, Daylight Saving Time is like having jetlag without having the fun of a vacation, first.
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I can tell things are going downhill already - I’m not at all sleepy, yet I should be crawling into bed right now…
Mmm - sounds like a delicious day at your house!
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An Edge Brownie Pan! OH MY! Since my husband’s family only likes the edges, I can see what Christmas gifts are going to be this year!
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Mmmm brownies…gottat get me an edge pan….And I completely agree with you on the whole DST thing. It’s awful. I’ll be messed up for a week.
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Omigawd, that looks so tasty! And I must have an Edge Pan. It’s brilliant!
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Interesting brownie pan. Isn’t it funny how a piece of kitchen equipment can inspire a person to bake? My newest (don’t know if you read UnderSaskSkies lately) favourite thing in the kitchen is a scone pan. Makes me look way more professional than I really am. Now, if someone could invent something for a knitter that makes projects look really great (other than- oh, say, knitting accurately), then I’d really be in business.
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Having those delicious brownie-oatmeal cookie thingies shoudl help mute the initial pain od daylight savings time. Getting up this morning in the dark was not pleasant. Although by the time I got downstairs for my coffee, the sky was starting to pink up which was pretty.
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What an awesome pan! I’ve never seen one of those before. Very cool. That cookie looks and sounds fabulous, too. Though I would have kept the cinnamon in.
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DST is jetlag. Mandated by hateful people. Turn on all your lights in the morning and whatever you do, don’t shop at night. That’s what it’s really supposed to do - we go out and shop during all those lovely daylight hours after work. Gah.
Clever idea for the cookie/brownie combo!
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Those brownie/oatmeal things look amazing. I’m on a diet it. Stop tempting me!
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I’ll tell RR you said I need one of those pans, I’m sure he’ll run right out to get me one. ;o))
In the afternoons, the sun is now coming in my office windows at just the right angle to blind me. I guess this means I can stop work at 2:30, right?
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