4--See, two in one week

I made this soup Sunday night. I have wanted to collect some recipes that a tasty using lentils and this one is a keeper. This came from my Aunt Sharon. She shared a stack of her favorite recipes with us one Christmas, and so it is also fun to see her handwriting and remember her and all the amazing things she does.

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Made these for breakfast on Sunday morning. This recipe is from a friend who would share them when I went visiting teaching to her house. Yummy! Finally I made them myself. I like them because they are not too cakey. Do you know what I mean? They still taste like muffins and not a cupcake. However, I probably should have had the temperature at 375 because I used non stick pans and they got a little too done.

Chocolate Intesity Muffins

2 c. flour

3/4 c. unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/4 c. sugar

1 T. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

2 large eggs

1 c. buttermilk

1/2 c. butter, melted

1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and move oven rack to top 3rd position. Coat 12 cup muffin tins including top edges-these are sticky muffins.

Sift cocoa with flour. Add sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Combine well. Whisk eggs, buttermilk, butter and vanilla until blended. Pour liquid over dry ingredients and fold with spatula. Do not overmix. Spoon into tins. Bake for 20 minutes until tester is clean.

Adding 1 c. semi-sweet chips optional. (Not really if you ask me.)

Birthday Bees Game

On Spencer's Birthday we all went to the Bees Game. We have a lot of July birthdays in the family so we celebrated for Spencer, Zac, Carson, & Tom. It was totally fun to sit in one of the suites, but totally messy. Who knew popcorn could make such a mess?

The best part of the night -- Buzz came in to sing Happy Birthday with us.

Carson and Cam snuck over to the suite next to us and were having a great time!

Thanks mom for taking us!

Hoping to catch a fly

Woodland

We went for walk on a Sunday afternoon. I got a little crazy shooting into the sun but I still kinda like these.

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Ok, so I'm a little behind but I'm not going to let this stress me out. Tonight I made Zucchini Brownies because first of all I wanted something chocolaty and second, I have several LARGE Zucchinis waiting to be use around here.

This recipe is from a Philadelphia friend, so if any of you Philly friends out there ever read my blog, give me a holler. It is about time I heard from some of you. Seriously though, we loved our time in Philadelphia and I miss it exquisitely sometimes. While there we compiled a Philly cookbook and I still use many of the recipes. Having certain foods take me back and remind of the friend who made it. Like having Michelle's Herbed Bread or Jodie's Spinach Dip or Janet's Coconut Shrimp or Margel's Hearty Mexican Soup or Janna's beautiful pies. You can thank Michelle Bishop for this recipe. I've been meaning to try this recipe for years now and I'm glad to have a little garden to supply me with zucchinis. I'll have to use this more often, especially because brownies with that much zucchini in them MUST be healthy!

1 1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. vegetable oil

1 egg

2 tsp. vanilla

2 c. flour

3/4 c. cocoa

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

2 1/2 c. grated zucchini

Cream sugar, oil, egg and vanilla. Add remaining ingredients. Spray cookie sheet and spread batter out on it. Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees.

(I doubled the recipe and made them in a jelly roll pan.)

p.s. Don't beat them too much, mine were a little more like cake than brownies, but still good.