...A Guide to the Perfect, Rainy Day Brownies At least once every two weeks, most people have one of those days that never seems to end. Many try to counter these days with a hot bath or some alone time; however, there is only one real cure for such moments. This remedy has the ability to warm a body from the inside out and bring people together. The medicine contains a melt-in-your-mouth taste sensation, a one-of-a-kind flavor explosion, and, best of all, a great deal of chocolate. Making the perfect brownies for bad days can be accomplished in just under an hour by following only a few simple steps. The first step is one that is not usually found in any brownie recipes. It is to find someone to make the brownies with. Baking alone never produces the same effects as sharing it with someone who is either going through a rough day as well or is just plain fun to be around. I usually choose my baking partner for the latter reason, and, more often than not, my partner is my mom. In fact, my mother is the one who taught me this family recipe that we have tweaked here and there. Now that I am in college one hundred miles away from home, I fully understand the brilliance of Skype. If a baking partner is not available at that moment, baking with someone special via Skype is a fun alternative. The final step before actually beginning the baking process is to make sure all of the ingredients are at hand. These ingredients include eggs, flour, sugar, vanilla, cocoa powder, almonds, and...
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...Navigate Brownies: Introduction Brownies: ZZ Packer Biography Brownies: Summary Brownies: Characters Brownies: Themes Brownies: Style Brownies: Historical Context Brownies: Critical Overview Brownies: Criticism Bryan Aubrey Thomson Gale David Wiegand Brownies: Topics for Further Study Brownies: What Do I Read Next? Brownies: Bibliography and Further Reading Brownies: Pictures Copyright Brownies: Introduction PrintPDFCite . “Brownies” is a story by ZZ Packer, a young African American writer. It appears in Packer’s short story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, which was published in 2003 to great acclaim. The story is about a Brownie troop of fourth-grade African American girls from suburban Atlanta, Georgia, who go to summer camp. At the camp, they encounter a troop of white girls and believe that one of the white girls addressed them with a racial insult. The African American girls resolve to beat up the white girls. “Brownies” is a story about racism as it is experienced by young girls, but it has a twist. The African American girls discover that the situation is not as clear-cut as they had believed, and as they return home on the bus, Laurel, the African American girl who narrates the story, tells them of an incident in her family involving a white Mennonite family. As she tells the story, she comes to an unsettling realization about racism and the nature of human life. Brownies Summary “Brownies” takes...
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...Baked with Tolerance The short story “Brownies” by ZZ Packer is about a troop of girl scouts who are away at Camp Crescendo summer camp. The story tells of an all black Girl Scout troop of brownies who form this rivalry with all of the white girl scouts, who are known as Troop 909. As soon as the brownies arrive, some of the girls begin to question why they are at camp with white girls. Snot, one of the brownie troop members, finds out that the girls in Troop 909 are special needs children. When she discovers this, she then starts to think that Camp Crescendo is just a place where rejects and outcasts are sent. During their time at the camp, Brownie Troop members Snot and Daphne get the opportunity to grow and discover that they are their own person, and not just followers of Arnetta. Many themes are touched upon in “Brownies”. The story mainly revolves around the themes of tolerance, jealousy, and bullying. Tolerance is something that every human being should have for everyone. People who practice intolerance by being jealous and bringing down others don’t realize that it’s not only harmful to the victim, but it’s harmful to them as well. The trip to Camp Crescendo for Arnetta and Octavia was just something they were required to do. It also became an opportunity for them to harass other troop members who were less fortunate than they were. They examined and commented on everything about Troop 909. They also made fun of them at every opportunity they recieved. For example...
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...Eggless Chocolate Brownies Brownies are my all time favorite dessert dish. a slice of brownie topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup drizzled over, makes me go crazy. This time i tried egg less brownies. i substituted egg with condensed milk and orange juice. that is a wrong combination of mixing condensed milk and orange juice, as the milk gets curdled. yes it curdled a bit, but once i added the flour, everything went fine and it resulted in yummy and delicious brownies. I managed to click step wise pictures, but could not click few steps. excuse me for that. You can skip the orange juice and add water for the measurement told, along with the dark chocolate while melting it. i will explain this in step wise pictures, so you can get a clear idea. When you are baking egg less cakes or brownies, the recipe either calls for Milk, condensed milk or butter milk. and also vinegar or any other citric based one like orange juice is added. actually the citric when mixed with baking soda and baking powder(its a chemistry stuff) gives you a fluffy soft cake. Ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour / Maida 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 3/4 cup of Dark chocolate 30 ml of water 65 ml of Orange juice 1/2 cup(116 gms) of Butter 3 tbsp of powdered sugar 200 gms of Condensed milk 5 almonds or walnuts finely chopped Method: Prepare for double boiling, to melt the chocolate, by heating a larger vessel with water up to its 3/4 th level and fit...
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...| Log in with Facebook Login/Register | f | Search Recipes | Back | Gourmand created this recipe. | Red Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting | Save to Favoritesfor Laterto ShareNew MenuShare Email Print ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form | Photo IngredientsServings Ingredient Edit/Substitutions Cancel Save | 12 cup | butter (at room temperature) | | 1 14 cup | sugar | | 2 | eggs | | 2 tsp | vanilla extract | | 1 14 cup | all-purpose flour | | 14 tsp | salt | | 3 tbsp | cocoa powder | | 2 tbsp | food coloring (red) | | 4 oz | cream cheese (for frosting) | | 14 cup | butter (for frosting) | | 2 cup | powdered sugar (for frosting) | | 1 tsp | vanilla (for frosting) | | 2 tbsp | milk (as needed, for frosting) | Method 1 | Preheat oven to 350. | 2 | Butter and flour an 8 x 8 cake pan. | 3 | In a small bowl, combine cocoa powder, red food coloring, and 1 teaspoon vanilla to create a paste. | 4 | In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, then add remaining teaspoon of vanilla. With the mixer on medium speed, add in cocoa powder mixture. Beat until batter is completely red. (If at this time your batter is NOT red, you can add a little more food coloring if desired. Color will depend on brand.) Add flour and salt, mixing until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips. | 5 | Spread in the 8 x 8 pan...
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...How to make the perfect brownies Brownies are one of Americans favorites’ desert. More than 2 billion brownies were consumed in the United States alone last year. I mean, how can you not love such a delicious, sweet, and savory desert. All my life I have been baking brownies the wrong way; however, it stops today as with these preparations process we all are going to make perfectly, gorgeous delicious brownies. Before we start let me just add up and say, “The steps are very easy to do that, and even toddler could bake it as well.” Before we start with the preparations, we will need the following ingredients, and tools: cups (2 sticks) butter or margarine, two cups of sugar, two teaspoons of vanilla extract. Four eggs, three a half Hershey’s...
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..."Hello, my name is Laurel, but my friends call me “Snot”. I am an African American and in the fourth grade. I am going to tell you a story about my adventure at Camp Crescendo, a summer camp for fourth graders near the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. I announced that by the second day of camp, all the girls in my Brownie troop had decided they were going to "kick the asses" of every girl in Brownie Troop 909, who were all white girls. The other black girls and myself took a dislike to the white girls when we first saw them. Arnetta, our ringleader, said they smelled "like Chihuahuas. Wet Chihuahuas." When she said that they were like "Caucasian Chihuahuas," we all went into fits of laughter. They regard the word Caucasian as a hilarious term of abuse that can be used in almost any situation. We all have seen whites before but have never had much to do with them. But the ten white girls we encounter at the camp are closer to us and, therefore, more real and capable of exciting envy and hatred. At the end of the first day at camp, Arnetta reports she heard one of the white girls refer to Daphne, a black girl, as "a nigger." On prompting by Arnetta, Daphne, a quiet girl, nods her head to confirm that the derogatory term was used. Arnetta tells the other girls that they cannot let the white girls get away with using that word about them. She told us that we must teach the white girls a lesson. Janice suggests that they put daddy-long-legs in the white girls' sleeping bags, and when...
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...I could smell my grandma’s sweet and sour meatballs cooking in the oven, and looked over to see warm, crispy potato latkes sitting in a pan ready to be devoured. I focused my attention back to the brownies and began to help my sisters. My job was to mix together the melted butter and chocolate chips with the sugar, eggs, and vanilla. To me, the flour was always so tricky to keep in the bowl and would always sprinkle everywhere creating an image of snow around the kitchen. My grandma and sisters laughed at me as I was covered in flour and a sticky mess! Once I got cleaned up, the brownie batter was ready to go into the oven. My sister’s and I would always watch the batter begin to rise as if it was the most interesting thing we’ve ever seen. The aroma of sweet chocolate and moist cake filled the air of my grandparent’s apartment. Finally the brownies were ready, and I was astonished at how they turned into perfectly brown, gooey brownies from such a mess I had created. My grandma helped me carry the pan of brownies to the table, which was decorated so beautifully with gold plates, glass cups, and flowers. Everyone gathered at the table and began to eat, laugh, and share...
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...everyone should know how to respect each other. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. My laws of life story is about respect, it's about how I disrespected a random stranger on the phone, for not knowing about the brownies I made. Let's go back and relive the situation. It was near the end of seventh grade. My friend Olivia came over. I wanted to make brownies so we agreed to make some. After we put them in the oven I started to get bored. “Let's go on a walk to the graveyard”. I said to Olivia She was cautious at first but decided it might be fun. The neighborhood I live in has a graveyard beside it, and beside the graveyard is the Green Local...
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...my sketch of the "Angry birds", saw them on the Net. Once I agreed to her order, immediately I googled, i knoww that my kids had been playing this game in my iphone but I just couldn't be bothered. I am not so keen on the games, i only know how to play 'Tetris' and a bit of " Solitaire". the eggs, the centre of attraction, the reason for the birds to be so angry because they were stolen by the green piggies. I googled in youtube, watched the games, the short stories just to find out what the fuss was all about, what is this "angry birds' all about. why are they so angry, wwwhat makes them so furious, so now I know.......... Five angry, fuming, birds, Batrisyia told me, each one of these birds has its own specialty and unique characters, the red one was the main character but it does not have any special ability, and ...... to be continued...haha..... i don't really know actually, have to do more homework on them. Actually I am waiting for the catapult to dry properly, before I put all the angry birds on the cake, this is just a seneak preview, my friend will collect this cake tomorrow afternoon. OUCH! dah lah kena lastik, nak ambik telur, jatuh terhempap pulak dengan bata bata ni..... gotta go..... Posted by zue at 5:18 AM 4 comments Labels: 3D cake Friday, December 2, 2011 love letters cupcakes "in you, i have found the greatest joy in my life', her feeling is expressed via these cupcakes " i love you more than watching movies on rainy days" , yes we all...
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...Week 3 Ethics In todays society businesses are under the impression that the community owes them for their establishment and for what they bring to the town or city. In the film, Greyston Brownies, I assessed, the film deals with the issues of the direction that Greyston Brownie business was building towards. These issues were very unique and unselfish when considering the state of the economy. While watching the clip of the CEO of Greyston talking about how their business is set up to serve the community; not for the community to serve the business ("Greyston bakery. the," 2009). He explained how over time the views of the world have changed from a religious perspective to a social perspective and how currently business has overtaken cities and towns. The major factor behind Greyston is that it has a split bottom line, which means that it has a social mission and a profit mission. Their social mission is to open their doors to struggling members of their community and the profit mission is to make sure that the profits from their business are invested towards growing the community development ("Greyston bakery. the," 2009). The film showed the community Greyston Brownies is located in it appears, is a struggling town for many. Some citizens want to work and others don’t show the ambition to support themselves or their families. In the current economy, many cities are fighting this problem. Even though it wasn’t proven during the clip it could have played a major role...
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...Images of Microsoft® Excel dialog boxes © Microsoft. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. 1 Tool for Solving a Linear Program: Excel has the capability to solve linear (and often nonlinear) programming problems. The SOLVER tool in Excel: May be used to solve linear and nonlinear optimization problems Allows integer or binary restrictions to be placed on decision variables Can be used to solve problems with up to 200 decision variables 2 How to Install SOLVER: The SOLVER Add-in is a Microsoft Office Excel add-in program that is available when you install Microsoft Office or Excel. To use the Solver Add-in, however, you first need to load it in Excel. The process is slightly different for Mac or PC users. Microsoft: 1. Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Excel Options. 2. Click Add-Ins, and then in the Manage box, select Excel Add-ins and click Go. 3. In the Add-Ins available box, select the Solver Add-in check box, and then click OK. If Solver Add-in is not listed in the Add-Ins available box, click Browse to locate the add-in. If you get prompted that Solver is not currently installed, click Yes to install it. 4. After you load Solver, the Solver command is available in the Analysis group on the Data tab. MAC: 1. Open Excel for Mac 2011 and begin by clicking on the Tools menu. 2. Click Add-Ins, and then in the Add-Ins...
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...product will equal fifty cups of coleslaw. Finally, to the sweet stuff, sweet tea and desserts. Living in Southwest Georgia in June it is hot therefore, there needs to be plenty of sweet tea to drink. If each person drinks about four cups of tea then there needs to be about two hundred cups of tea because four times fifty is two hundred. To keep the sweet tea cold, the three coolers and each cooler holds about five bags of ice each. Therefore, there needs to be fifteen bags of ice because three times five is fifteen. Now for dessert, there will be brownies and ice cream. If each person eats about two brownies and each box makes about fifteen brownies then there needs to be enough to make one hundred brownies because fifty times two is one hundred. If each box makes fifteen brownies then there needs to be about seven boxes of brownie mix because fifteen times seven is one hundred and five, which will be enough for each person to get two brownies, with some left over. For the other dessert, which is ice cream, each person will get about one cup so there needs to be about fifty cups of ice cream. The Barbeque can take place now, because of the closure property of multiplication. People use this property every day without realizing it. The closure property of multiplication helped plan a Barbeque by multiplying whole numbers together to get a whole number but there are other ways to use this property to help with everyday life. ...
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...employees, expecting them to hold themselves accountable for the overall quality of their performances. In Mistretta’s case, I believe he will carry on this type of management, if not improve it. Because he has much more experience in the corporate world, he has seen management strategies succeed and fail. Thus, Mistretta should be that much more able to choose the right strategy for the Greyston Bakery. Companies that portray a greater interest in their communities are typically more popular in the corporate world. Greyston Bakery has managed to not only help its customers but also its employees. What is so attractive about this bakery is that it genuinely cares about its employees. Its creed even states “We don’t hire people to make brownies. We make brownies to hire people.” This statement is proof that their company cares about more than just food production. Another reason why Greyston has been so successful is because of the benefits it offers. First off, most employees who work at the company are individuals who have been “written off” by society. In other words, they have had difficulty finding jobs because they have either...
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...going to die so therefore with the fear of death upon him the court considers this statement a truthful statement and can be the hearsay Federal rule 804 as well Federal rule 803 (1) exception. 2. Oscar’s patient chart from the hospital, in which the doctor recorded Oscar’s statement that: “A friend gave me some brownies. They tasted a little funny, but I ate them. About ten minutes later, my heart started beating fast, this shaking started, and I had to vomit. Help me!” The emergency room’s head nurse will testify that the hospital has regular guidelines for documenting patient illnesses, and that Oscar’s chart complied with those guidelines. The head nurse did not hear Oscar’s statement; the doctor who treated him is not available to testify at trial. The medical records of Oscar can be used admit it as evidence under Federal rule 803(4) because it's Oscar's medical records and then also Federal rule 803 (5) entered in...
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