This time I tried the recipe for Barefoot Contessa's Outrageous Brownies.Now some of you may know that recently I had my yearly physical, and I got a high blood sugar reading. I learned this in a letter from my doctor. A letter that appeared to have been written by a fourth grader whose favorite subject was not English. Pretty much all it said was to cut all sweets out of my diet for the next year. So I have been trying to eat less sugar until I figure out what is going on! Megan spent all day bullying me, though. Telling me to think about my public. Telling me I had to make something sweet so we would have something to blog about today. Finally she wore me down! So the new theme of this blog may be watching a diabetic slowly die from eating brownies. We shall see!
Anyway, the recipe turned out very well. I halved the recipe so it would fit in a standard cake pan. I also left out the instant coffee powder, because of my picky audience. The brownies turned out very rich and fudgy. Yum! Two thumbs up.
-Kristin
6 comments:
Are these better than those sweet ones you made? I think the one you made a long time ago was a Mark Bittman recipe. It was wonderful, but very, very sweet.
i think they were really similar to that recipe. very rich and sweet.
That Barefoot Contessa annoys me when I watch her, but her food is really, really good. Other than the nuts these look awesome (the coffee would have cut the sweet a bit too).
What did you eat before you went to the doctor for your checkup? Once before a work physical, I was working a zillion hours and constantly climbing up and down ladders. I had a high blood sugar reading but then when I thought back to what I ate it made me laugh. The day before I had coffee with lots of sugar and some donuts for breakfast. Lunch was a candybar and milkshake. I forget what dinner was but I'm sure it was followed by something sweet. They were sure I was diabetic. I just cut back to normal sugar and everything was good. You, like I, are cursed with a super sweet tooth. We love our desserts on both sides of the family and your family is the same way!
Hmmm, the last thing I ate before the physical was definitely some kind of dessert! And who knows what else I ate? I'm trying to get the lab results now (I can't believe the dr didn't just send them automatically). Then I think I'll get retested. Switching to a different doctor!
I always have to fight to get my lab results. It is crazy to have to pay for a test, but the test isn't yours apparently, cause they think you are too stupid to understand it.
Our doctor, since they switched to electronic records gave us the option to sign up with an account and a password and all of our lab work is available on-line. You can access it through their website. It's very nice.
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