Day 16: Today is National Chocolate Day. Coincidentally, it's also National First Responders Day. Therefore, I went with my first response and made good ol' cake brownies out of the red-and-white Better Homes and Gardens cookbook which has been my companion since...good grief, really?...1966. It was the first cookbook in my kitchen as I set up housekeeping on my own at a time when I barely knew how to boil water. I graduated from the "Cookies" section to the "Bread" section within a year, and the rest is history. I've never been one for exploring recipes for main dishes, but carbs? Give me a sack of flour, a little sugar, a couple of eggs some butter, and a cupboard stocked with additives like baking soda/powder, yeast, vanilla, and I'm a happy camper. And oddly, there was a time when I didn't care for chocolate. My, how times change!
