Hey, Y’all. 🙂
I’m gonna just randoms this today…recipe at the end as always. 🙂
A little bit of V-Day advice…
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So let’s do the serious topic first. I got a couple email about the Johnny Manziel domestic abuse story. Basically wanting to know if I was going to defend him given our A&M allegience. Uhm…hell no. I defended his college drinking and partying all the time and always will. He was a college kid. That’s what they do. This? No way. He has a history of domestic violence so no benefit of the doubt on this one. And to the media and fans trying to paint him as ‘troubled’ or a drunk / addict. Yeah he’s troubled and probably both but ya know what? He can take a seat in jail and dry out / do AA or whatever in there.
I won’t throw him in the human garbage pile til there are pics and / or court transcripts / a conviction. But defend him on this…never ever ever.
Those of you who know me in person know that I’m always screaming patience (let’s see the evidence first) but see with this he already got away with hitting her once. Which is 100% sad /ridic and a million other things. One of those things being his wake up to get himself in check. He chose not to do that. Not his dad. Not his team. Not the girlfriend. Him. So whether he hit her or not this time he and only he put himself in the position for any of this to happen. I don’t care if she seems like a mess too. He put himself in the room with her.
Now if it comes out she put a gun to his head…forced him to the room…then forced him to hit her…I’ll apologize. Pretty sure that’s never gonna happen. So you just go right ahead and take a seat in jail, JM where you belong.
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Staying with the sports theme…
Former A&M QB’s Kyler and Kyle…y’all know what? The succesful / talented players who leave here never have anything bad to say. Interesting. 😉
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This Beyoncé stuff is ridiculous. Doubtful they’ve actually listened to the song at all. Protesting over someone with a powerful voice wanting those who protect and serve to stop MURDERING young black men is dumber than usual for these fools. A badge is not a license to kill. Keep on screaming it loud, Queen Bey. 🙂
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Well y’all definitely picked the right doofuses for that one. 😉 Screen shot from a Windows live News tile today.
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Look what came this week. 🙂 31 pounds of gfJules flour. It cost a little more but instead of buying 3 ten pound bags I got a bunch of smaller bags. Because of the 100* + temps in the summertime here (meaning even hotter while stuck on a delivery truck all day) I always order a big batch of flour to last between now (while it’s cooler) and like November when it’s cools off again. Jules says that her flour does best when stored out of the super cold (icebox / freezer) so this way I can keep the flour in the coolest room of the house all summer and then just have one smaller bag opened at a time.
Recipe time…
Have y’all ever tried this brownie recipe?
You take any brownie mix (or even your own recipe) and mix it up according to directions. I used the gfjules brownie mix I ordered after Christmas and used butter instead of oil. Jules has to cook dairy free (I think) but I don’t and just like butter and chocolate better.
Rough spread half of it in a brownie pan.
I can’t get this to rotate correctly but it’s Ghirardelli Valentine’s Strawberry filled squares.
Place 12 of them on top like this. Did this in halves to show the next step better.
A little trick for helping top when recipes call for half on the bottom half on the top. Spray a piece of Saran really well. Plop the required amount of batter / dough in the center. Obviously only do this if your batter / dough is thick enough for it. 🙂 Fold Saran over on top and them press out in between to the needed size.
Then just plop the dough on top. Peel off the Saran and no mess or fuss. You don’t lose any batter to your hands and it’s just so much less mess and frustration trying to get it even.
After it’s all layered follow the temp and time on your mix or recipe and bake til done. I used my convection oven at 325* for about 14 minutes.
Let it cool and then you have a little gooey strawberry filling in each piece.
Only the good china for this girl. 😉
I always try to give my reviews on the new gluten – free stuff I try. Since I like to read reviews myself before trying stuff so I know what to expect. I adore the gfJules flour and the mixes I’ve tried have all turned out exactly as I expected them to. The only issue I have with them at all…including this brownie mix is they’re not sweet enough for me. This is 100% my issue and nothing on them at all as we all have different sugar preferences. As y’all know mine lean more toward freebasing it 😉 …and the mixes are more light handed. 🙂 Just my opinion though and I’ll still order my favs when they’re on sale and just add additional sweetness. No biggie but I still like to share for the next person looking for reviews. 🙂
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Happy Valentine’s Day. 🙂
See y’all soon. 🙂
Watched Top Gun the other night. Even though Tom C turned out to be more than a little cray…it still totally took me back to 1oth grade. 🙂