Brownie Blues

I keep rewriting this post. I've had it open in a tab for days now and left unfinished. I still enjoy doing this blog but I went through a really tough time and I have trouble faking my emotions. I want this blog to be positive because cooking and baking are great passions of mine. If the tone of my blog is negative I feel like the blog would just be counterproductive.
Today I went for one of my long walks to sort out my thoughts and I didn't come to any concrete conclusions but I found a slight moment of clarity.  I would like to post as often as my psyche would allow.  I realized after sharing my thoughts with others, that most people feel the same why as I do. We're all just human, trying to figure it all out and seek happiness. My happiness comes when I bake. I don't want to promote emotional eating but I know I am victim of it... these brownies I made are the result of my overwhelming sadness. They turned out really well actually and I've been slowly eating them ever since. So maybe, thank god for brownies... otherwise this world would be a dull and scary place.

These are the brownies fresh out the oven

 I cut off the edges for a even look. The cut off pieces of brownies looked like large pieces of poop so I buried it in my cats litter box to play a prank on my mother.  It worked and it was quite hilarious.

 The finished product... 

Yom!

This is a recipe from Chloe's vegan cookbook and here's what I thought...
I changed a few things in the recipe.  I added apple sauce for moisture and used brown and white sugar instead of just white sugar.

Ease of recipe: 5/5

Taste: 5/5

Friends/Family thoughts: 4/5

Likely hood to remake recipe: 4/5
I would remake this recipe again but I would add extra things like bananas or nuts or even something special.... 

Overall Cooking Experience: 4/5

Bonus Casey Points: 0/1
Casey was not around to judge this recipe.


Final: 22/25

Having a bad day ?? Make these brownies !!! As you eat them, just remember keep on keeping on little one. 

Alligator Smoothie

I haven't written a blog entry in a little while because I was in the middle of having the worst week of my life. I wish I was being dramatic but sadly I'm not :(.  Instead of moping around I have decided to pick up all the broken pieces of me and carry on... blah.
Anyway, most of the horribleness has happened and started to go away and I was in the mood for a smoothie this morning. Smoothies are packed with nutrition and it's a really easy way to get a few of your daily servings of fruit and veggies.
I have called this smoothie the "Alligator Smoothie" for those people out there with young children who may be hesitant to have spinach in a drink. If you're an adult it's really just an apple spinach smoothie but where's the fun in that? For all the picky eaters out there don't worry! You can't even taste the spinach.

Ingredients
Mango Juice- 3/4 of a cup (you could also use almond milk/soy milk)
Ice- 1 hand full
Green apple- 1 apple sliced and skinned
Banana- 1/2 a banana sliced
Spinach- 1 cup

Put all ingredients in a blender and mix on liquify for 1 minute or until smooth.