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BAKER'S Brownies

One of my favorite things to bake is good-old-fashioned brownies. The recipe that my mother and I use is a Baker's Chocolate recipe:

BAKER'S ONE BOWL BROWNIES
(exact recipe)

Prep: 15 min.  Total: 50 min.
4 squares Baker's unsweetened baking chocolate
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup flour
1 cup coarsely chopped Pecans (optional)


Preheat oven to 350°F 
Microwave unsweetened chocolate and butter in large microwavable bowl on high for two minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is melted. Stir in sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add flour and nuts; mix well. Spread into prepared pan. Make sure to spread pan with butter or Pam's cooking spray so batter doesn't stick.
Bake 30-35 min. or until toothpick inserted into center comes out with crumbs. (Do not overbake.) Cool in pan in wire rack. Remove brownies from pan. Cut into squares. Store in tightly covered container.
Makes 24 servings. 


Stella

New and Improved!

As you may have noticed already, I have re-booted my blog into a newer, improved version. I hope everyone enjoys the new version and more posts will coming soon!

How My Dog, Zeiss, Reacts To Basketball

Here is a super silly video that my dad caught of my dog playing keep away from us. This is my dog's usual reaction to basketball...it is hilarious.

That also isn't his normal bark. My dad looked up high barks on Google and it says when a dog makes a high pitched bark, it usually wants a toy or something.

Anyway, I hope you find this amusing!

That is how he has managed to pop every basketball of ours. At home, we have a bucket full of popped, deflated basketballs. Zeiss LOVES basketball.

Stella

Adventures

So after I had gone to String Camp, I had to take a visit to my grandparents because I had sailing camp. It was so much fun! It was on an island, so every camper has to take a boat out to the island and back to the mainland from the island, so I had sea legs every day. It was awesome! (sea legs is wen you still feel like you're on a boat.)!

I couldn't write from my grandparents house anyway because 1) The power went out because of a thunderstorm and 2) I couldn't blog because I don't know the password anyway, dad does.

So after I went to sailing camp, I went down to Virginia Beach to visit my aunt and uncle. Unfortunately, the famous restaurant named The Purple Cow has closed, so we couldn't go there, but we went to some other places called Eat (this was good) and Catch 31 (which I didn't like).

Ivy and I got these really awesome tattoos called Henna Tattoos. I got a very detailed dolphin and Ivy got (surprise!) the jump man logo. It's a Michael Jordan thing. Ivy and mom went into the Nightmare Mansion and they said it was to dark that they couldn't see where they were going and that there were mirrors everywhere and it was eerie.

The actual boardwalk itself is 3.5 miles long, so biking there and back (which I did with my uncle and Ivy) would be seven miles. When we did that, it took about twenty minutes to get to the actual end of the boardwalk. That was so hard because we were heading into the wind, so we had to use extra force.

Riding back from the boardwalk was practically ten times easier! The wind was helping us glide along, so we didn't have to pedal long distances, which was good because w had lost most of our energy biking to the end.

The Boardwalk:

That is where I biked!

So we saw tons and tons of oil barges and cargo ships out on the edge of the horizon. That was cool. And we went to the beach every night and we took my aunt's tiny dog to the beach with a glow stick.

One morning, mom Ivy and I went to the beach for an early swim, and we saw probably 20 dolphins everywhere. Mom wasn't looking but Ivy and I both witnessed a dolphin that leaped out of the water in a big arc. Then we saw to more dolphins jump out together. They were playing.

Now I am up in Maine and I am going home tonight. I have been finishing up my math packet and I only have three pages of FRACTIONS left. Grrr.

Here a picture of Zeiss with another german shepherd named Iris. They are from the same breeder, but they have different parents.

Zeiss^                                    Iris^                

I'm in the blue shorts.

Tomorrow I have to go buy cleats and shin guards for soccer. Then we have to buy school supplies and new clothes for the fall. 

<3 Stella.

Dunder the German Sheperd!!!

This is a really cute video of a German Shepherd growing in forty seconds!! It isn't my dog, although they look exactly the same!!!! The dog's name is Dunder.


SO CUTE!

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( || )\ dog sitting.

Stella

Stella & Stonyfield!!!! My first TV ad almost 10 years ago!

Check this out!  My dad produced a Stonyfield Yogurt commercial almost ten years ago that my brother and I were both in. How EMBARASSING!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90_kovzO-P4&feature=channel_video_title

Capitol Pictures And More:-)))))))

Here r some Capitol pics and other pics from my trip. I took them!! Well, Most of them. Not the first one, obviously.

Enjoy!!

The Washington Monument.

In Chinatown!

The Art Museum

The Capitol. Wow!

The Statue on the top was added when Abe Lincoln was the Prez. I think.

Everyone is at the Capitol

At the CAPITOL!!! Ivy and I.

This Is Leo DaVinci's Painting. About 20 years before the Mona Lisa.

This is a painting of a girl about to kill herself. It is a very sad story

The Rotunda

The Rotunda

This is at Rosa Mexicano. Me with my Tacos!!!

In Chinatown a Tony Chengs

The Wright Brothers Plane. The first plane to fly?

ZEISSY!

Zeissy and ME!!

We didn't actually go to Lincoln Memorial or the Jefferson Memorial or the Library of Congress or the Archives. Save that for next trip!

Farewell,
        Stella