So I really meant to have this recipe up by around noon today, but Caroline woke up around 5 a.m. holding her right ear and telling me it hurt. Of course that led to a visit to the pediatrician to confirm the ear infection and get a prescription for antibiotics.
Then, we dropped off the prescription at HEB and ran to Hollywood Video to rent a few movies in a futile attempt to keep her fairly quiet and calm for the rest of the day. Of course as we were in Hollywood Video and she was jumping from side to side, I told her she needed to keep it low-key.
She said, “Low-key? I don’t know what that means.”
Don’t I know it, baby girl.
We picked out a few movies and headed back to HEB to pick up our prescriptions. By this time her ear was really bothering her again and she actually wanted me to carry her in the store and kept her head on my shoulder.
This has never happened in the history of the universe.
I carried her up to the pharmacy counter where they informed me that because their computers were down, they couldn’t give us our prescriptions even though I could see them sitting right there on the counter.
Frustration, thy name is modern technology.
There is nothing like holding your 37 pound, whimpering child while being told you can’t have the medicine that will make her feel better. I had to pull out my Shirley McClain impression and beg them to, at the very least, give me the ear-numbing drops.
Finally, they gave us all our medications. We came home, got medicated, and have spent much of the afternoon lying in my bed watching “Muppets Treasure Island”. A true cinematic classic.
All that to say, Hey! Here’s the recipe for Chocolate Chip Brownies, and all y’all had to do was read my tale of gloom and despair to get it.
Chocolate Chip Brownies/Cookies (it can be either, it has multiple personalities much like Shirley McClain has had multiple lives)
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups Quaker oats
1 tsp. vanilla
1 package chocolate chips
Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs, vanilla, and dry ingredients. Do not blow in the flour unless you would like to spend the next hour cleaning up the powdery residue. Add oats and chocolate chips. Bake in a 9 x 13 greased baking dish at 350 for 25 minutes. Or for cookies, drop by tablespoonfuls on lightly greased baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes.
And let me just say, if there has ever been a 24 hour period that I’ve been thankful to have these on hand, today is that day.
Hey! I have all of that on hand too! Except for the chocolate chips. But I do have a whole unopened bag of Hershey’s kisses. Only because they are on the top shelf where I can’t reach them.
Methinks tomorrow night I will make them.
No blowing in the flour?
Hmph.
You spoil all the fun.
Sorry about the ear infection!
Modern technology is great…when it works.
And if ever there was a day to make those brownies, it might be tomorrow for me. If we’re out of school again, they might be the only thing that gets me through my day!
I think I may have that stuff. Who knew. And I totally feel like indulging/punishing myself with food.
You mean to tell me that brownies can be made from something other than a little bag that says add water, oil, and egg?
Well I’ll be!
I might have to give it a whirl tomorrow if I am still iced in, but if we are not no amount of chocolate could keep me in this house. I want out!
The only thing keeping me going is the highlights on bloglines.
Yum! These sound delish!
Hope Caroline is feeling better.
Awww, Bless her little heart. Tell her to feel better soon! I know my 2 guys would love these brownies….I’ll have to try them out this weekend.
Aaaw!! Hope she’s better really soon. I would get better fast if I had chocolate chip brownies!!!
Just wanted to let you know that hubby came home with Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Caramel De-lights today. Weren’t you the one who had never heard of Caramel De-lights? Well let me tell you, they are wonderful. If I were you, I would find your nearest Girl Scout and ask her what’s up with the lack of De-lights in Texas.
That poor girl… I feel sorry for Caroline too.
And I’m so glad that you put in the warning. Now I can show it to my kids and say, “See! I told you you can’t do that! It’s even in writing!”
(And why yes, we do talk in exclamation points at our house!)
Yum. I’ll definitely have to try these.
Hope Caroline feels better soon! And thanks for the recipe — I have a feeling those will find their way into my kitchen before the week is over.
Hang in there!
Sorry to hear she’s under the weather… my three were down and out with the flu over the past 10 days. They are finally on the mend.
Praying your daughter has a quick recovery.
Oh man. I wish I was still young enough to have a mom that baked cookies OR brownies for me!
Hope Caroline feels better soon… Then she can go sailing ‘on the big, blue wet thing’! I LOVE Muppet’s Treasure Island!
I’m in! I was just thinking how I needed to make some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies to use the healthy oatmeal I just bought. I think I’ll try them as brownies.
Those sound good. The h*ll with Weight Watchers.
And if that had been me in that pharmacy, you’d be hearing about it right now on the evening news. “Crazed Mother Strangles Pharmacy Technician with Tech’s ID badge lanyard…film at eleven…”
I made almost these exact same things today in the form of cookies (only mine had 1/4 c. more butter! yikes!), and yes, they are addictively good…
Aw, poor girl (and poor mommy). But there’s nothing like some Muppets (and yummy brownies) to ease the pain of an ear infection.
That recipe sounds great!
I swear, you never dissapoint! Love the Shirley McClain reference. Hope your little one gets to feeling better very soon!