I was minding my own business this evening, working on editing pictures from Christmas, when my curly-headed 15 year old son plopped down beside me on the couch and said, “Mama, couldn’t you make me some warm brownies tonight?”  They can really be influentially sweet when they need to be, these kids. I love that.  One day I will long to re-live these moments.

Needless to say, even though I was a little burned-out from all the Christmas baking,  I got up from my picture editing and started working on brownies.  Happily, brownies are fast and easy. I have a basic recipe that I use, as it turns out perfectly every time.  I know perfect is a relative term, because we all like different kinds of brownies.  Some folks like them cake-y, some kind of hard (have you ever had the brownies at Books-a-Million, in their cafe’? I almost broke…