Mmmm, Brownies

You may have noticed that we like brownies in our family. We have a recipe for brownies that I've been using for many many many many years. It's my go to potluck dessert. Even the kids will make brownies if they need a dessert for something. It's simple. It's easy.

But I'm not going to talk about those brownies right now.

I'm going to talk about Cream Cheese Brownies because February 10 was National Cream Cheese Brownie Day. I can never remember what recipes I've used in the past for this holiday. So this year, I found a new recipe (I'm assuming I haven't made it before because I found it on the internet this time). It's from Tasty and the recipe was for Cream Cheese Boxed Brownies.

I didn't used a boxed brownie mix. I used our tried and true recipe, which is quick, which is good because it was getting later and later and I wanted to make those cream cheese brownies for the holiday. 

I would do this recipe again to see if I could get a better swirl on the top. Oh well. Looks aren't everything.

 

Catching Up February 2025 part 1

Saturday, February 1, was World Read Aloud Day and Take Your Child to the Library Day so what a great day to go to the Orem Library's event, "Bring Your Child to the Library Day." Jet and I went to do some activities and get little stamps (stickers) in his "passport." 

His favorite was the dragon sticker. He noticed that it matched the dragon in the junior fiction area of the library and was excited to see it.

That day was also Ice Cream for Breakfast Day. Sometimes I keep this holiday to myself. This year, we had some fun with it as a family. We all had ice cream in waffle cone bowls.

Sunday, February 2, was Groundhog Day and Tater Tot Day. We had our traditional imitation groundhog burgers but this year they were black bean burgers based on "Buckbean Burgers." We had tater tots on the side.

Monday, February 3, was Feed the Birds Day. How appropriate that that was closing night of Lucky's play, Mary Poppins Jr. For Christmas Lucky got a shirt based on a line in the play. Mary Poppins uses a measuring tape to find out that Michael is a "noisy, mischievous, troublesome little boy." Lucky's shirt shows a measuring tape and the shirt says, "I'm not really a '...noisy, mischievous, troublesome little boy.' I just act that way."

Tuesday, February 4, was Homemade Soup Day. I made Bowtie Minestrone Soup from "A Season of Family Meal Plans," volume 1, by Jordan Page.

Wednesday, February 5, was World Nutella Day. We had Nutella sandwiches. 

Friday, February 7, was Fettuccine Alfredo Day. We ate fettuccine alfredo with the yummy alfredo sauce we always make from ourbestbites.com, "Guiltless Alfredo Sauce."

Sunday, February 9, was National Pizza Day. Since it was also Superb Owl Sunday (we're not really sports fans but we are fans of birds), we started with pizza and ended with a big spread of appetizers and snacks. Yumm. I, of course, also wore the owl earrings I got as a prize from the UCB challenge.

Monday, February 10, was Cream Cheese Brownie Day. We made cheesecake brownie bites from "A Season of Family Meal Plans," volume 1.

That's enough catching up for now. More later.

Bye. 

National Cream Cheese Brownie Day 2022

It was certainly an afternoon. I wanted to celebrate National Cream Cheese Brownie Day on February 10 and I kept going back and forth between two different recipes that I could make. I finally decided on one and had to let cream cheese soften and had to get some butter out of the freezer. I was going to make it after picking Nichole up. Unfortunately, I completely forgot Nichole had an orchestra rehearsal after school and couldn't figure out why she didn't come out to the van after school. Eventually I had to leave to pick up Jr. and then we drove back toward the high school and caught Nichole as she was walking home. She reminded me about the rehearsal. Oh yeah.

When we finally got home, I worked on the brownies. I used Mel's Kitchen Cafe recipe, Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies. By the time I was done, I didn't have time to make what was on the menu for tonight. So I turned to Six Sisters' Stuff and my instant pot book. Honey-garlic chicken. Yumm. It took me long enough, Nichole barely had time to eat some before she had to go to a performance in the evening. She had more when she got home.

We all had some of the brownies before bed. They were pretty.

 

Cream Cheese Brownies! Yumm!

 February 10 was National Cream Cheese Brownie Day. Yumm.

What else do I say? Yumm.