Shout Out to My Mom, Part II

Comfort food. Usually conjures up images of mashed potatoes, shepherd's pie, stroganoff... ya know. But I've found that the brownies my mom makes (and has made for years) have that same comforting appeal. So much so, that I've made them twice this month and have only managed to snap a couple of pictures of them in various states of half-eaten-ness.

Homemade Brownies with Frosting. These will kick your chocolate sweet tooth in the butt. If a sweet tooth has a butt. I'm furrowing my brow. This metaphor is all wrong.

But the brownies are so right.

At the Risk of Going Overboard

Here's what happens when you make a whole pan of brownies and there are only two people in the house to eat them. (We're new around these parts and don't know a ton of people who are ready to be taste-testers yet.) We turn the brownies and the extra dulce de leche into some pretty amazing ice cream.

This post also serves as a shout-out to my Uncle and Aunt NordShop who gave us an awesome Cuisinart ice cream maker for our wedding. It's their fault Lito and I are getting fat.