Friday Night Picture Show: Half-Nut Brownies
Posted: December 20, 2013 Filed under: Friday Night Picture Show, My Family Album, Recipes | Tags: brownies, FNPS, Friday Night Picture Show, frozen pizza, parenting, The Boy, walnuts 5 CommentsPara- / par-ə / Prefix. ”Alongside, near, beyond, altered, contrary to.”
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Another moment of my paranormal life, captured forever:
A sure way to break The Boy’s heart is to put nuts into food he likes. For years, I gave up walnuts in my brownies. (Because I spoil my children whenever possible.)
Then I realized I could force a compromise:
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- Prepare brownies. These are from a box.
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- Sprinkle chopped nuts over HALF the pan.
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- Poke them down into the batter. Then bake as usual.
As an extra perk, after you push all the nuts down into the batter, you get to lick your finger. Sweet.
Does anyone else do this?
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#FNPS
Renae Rude - The Paranormalist 
Oh, this is a pretty good ide- OH NO that nut is poking into the non-nut half! Aaaah! That nut right there! What if I were to cut into the brownies at the halfway mark and accidentally get a sliver of THAT ONE NUT?! AAAAAAH!!!
And that’s EXACTLY what your brother does 😀
Ah, my beloved children, you are a trial to me.
I don’t mind nuts THAT much, at least not anymore!
I do a similar trick with mushrooms in my casseroles for Husband. He loves em and I don’t.
Oooh. That’s smart. Mushrooms are a challenge in my relationship too. I usually leave the pieces big, so I can extract them from my food and give them to Ogre.