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What I ate last week. Ranked #182 in food podcasts in Mexico according to an email I just got.
EPISODE 59
NEWS & UPDATES
I spoke last week about my rotten cinnamon roll memory from a sleepover at my childhood friend’s house and the butter and iceberg sandwich that she would bring for school lunch, which reminded me of another girl who brought a swiss miss room temp pudding cup and half a bag of Ritz Bitz peanut butter sandwiches every single day for lunch in the bag that came in the box which meant that her family was going through a full box a day and someone was eating the other half. Her parents did well so this was not a situation of financial hardship although a box of Ritz Bitz sandwiches a day screams money to me. Cocktail shaped pool. Speaking of girls I went to elementary school with, we need to convince people to stop changing their names when they get married. I’m trying to stalk you on the internet and I can’t find you. I’m not doing anything bad. I just want to find out the long term effects of eating half a box of Ritz Bitz every day. It’s also possible that I can’t find them because they’ve died because they ate half a bag of Ritz Bitz everyday for god knows how long. Also I saw a Ritz cracker commercial that had three celebrities in it. One is too many. Nobody needs a celebrity to convince them to purchase buttery crackers. Although Pepsi is nosediving ever since they started pricing Doritos at $7 a bag.
Another concerning cook book: “Our Daily Bread…and much more!” by Banks United Methodist Church
Orange balls
1lb box of confectioner’s sugar
1 12oz box Vanilla Wafers, crushed
1 cup nuts, chopped
1 stick butter
6oz can frozen orange juice
Mix all ingredients and roll into balls. Then roll balls in coconut (not listed)
Russian Tea
½ cup instant tea
2 cups Tang
1 package Lemonade Koolaid
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground cloves
Mix well and serve 1.5-2 tablespoons per cup. Cinnamon candies may be added.
Pineapple Casserole
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2 cans pineapple tidbits, drained
1 stick butter, melted
6 TB flour
1 cup sugar
12 Ritz crackers
Mix cheese and pineapple. Mix flour and sugar and add to pineapple and cheese. Put mixture in greased pan. Crumble Ritz crackers over top and drizzle with butter. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
Crazy Crust Meat or Vegetable
½ cup flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
¼ cup shortening
½ cup sour cream
1 egg
Mix ingredients and spoon into 9” deep dish pie pan. Use any leftovers and be creative for the filling. Bake at 425 for 18 to 30 minutes. A favorite filling with my grandchildren is what we call Cowboy Food. Saute sliced hotdogs or hamburger with onions and a couple of tablespoons of barbeque sauce mixed in with a can of pork and beans.
100 Year Old Chess Pie
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1.5 cups sugar
½ cup coconut
1 stick oleo
½ cup nuts
1 tsp vinegar
Beat eggs well. Add sugar, oleo and beat well. Stir in coconut, nuts and flavoring. Bake 350 until done. (NO CRUST?)
Corn Bread Cake
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1.5 cups self-rising flour
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9x10 glass dish. Mix ingredients with a spoon. Bake 30-40 minutes until brown. (NO CORN??)
I’m finding these Bible casseroles v interesting. It makes me want to make some casseroles of my own. Also reminds me of this terrifying memory of the one dinner my dad made that was just chicken breast, red wine and rice crispy treats. He’s from NC so it tracks. The only week my dad ever had to cook for me and my sister growing up he just made us canned green beans over and over and I cried. Reminds me of how my former supervisor had a really old brown car and when she would pick up her son sometimes she also had to pick up the neighbor boy and bring him home too and he would cry because her car was so old.
90s cake decor: My roses are starting to bloom and the buds remind me of 90s grocery store cakes when grocery stores employed people who were great at cake decorating. Also confused as to why fake pearls made out of sugar are so hard now; I remember being at a birthday party when I was about 4 or 5 and there was a Barbie-themed cake with fake pearls and I was so scared to eat it but when I bit down on it, it shattered into a soft center. Nowadays sugar pearls are like eating rocks, at least the kind I’ve ordered when decorating cupcakes for a baby shower, which I refuse to do. The only times I ever made cupcakes as an adult was for two baby showers that Brian’s mom asked me to do which is kind of an insane thing to ask someone to do. Just because I can bake doesn’t mean that I can decorate cakes and cupcakes, or even make good cakes and/or cupcakes, or that I want to do that. Also now that I’m thinking back to those times, I made great vanilla buttercream frostings and I can’t remember what I did. I used to make the magnolia bakery buttercream growing up which is probably what I used. Very sweet. I was also asked to decorate a wedding cake the morning of my friend’s wedding. No piping bags or pastry tips available. I did a terrible job and was so stressed. Thinking that people who can bake are automatically going to be the correct person to ask to decorate a cake is like how everyone in my area thinks that because I have a library degree my job is putting books back on shelves which could not be further from the truth or what librarians or people with that degree actually do.
Spoke with my former supervisor who told me that she had something intriguing to tell me, but not in a good way: a terrible Shoney’s style buffet restaurant that she and her family used to go to that her brother referred to as “the place with the flies”. I will not describe it further. I’ve never been to a Shoney’s before so I asked Brian what it was like and he put his head in his hands and sighed. I guess I’ll never know.
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/seared-scallops-cauliflower-capers-and-raisins
$40 half chicken discussion
Food prices. Brian has decided that he is single-handedly driving up the price of Coke Zero so he’s going to boycott and see if the price goes down. Brian has a personal soy sauce bottle at work that he brought home for the first time to get a refill from my stock of soy sauce so he’s the guy at work who has a personal soy sauce bottle.
Brian said that he would take the two Fire Station steak dinners to lunch for the week so I wouldn’t have to cook and then he immediately started eating them. I thought firefighters were supposed to be good cooks. How do you make a steak well done yet it doesn’t even look cooked on the outside? Microwaved. Just give money to the fire station. Stop making them try to microwave steaks for money. Begging Brian to not bring it to work for lunch because I don’t want people to think that I made that steak.
Brian’s parents 15 year-old dog was barking his head off in the afternoon so I went up to check on him and and discovered that he was being gang stalked by vultures waiting for him to die.
SCENTS
Rewore Le Labo Fleur d’Oranger; this is so simple, and a little obvious which isn’t typical for Le Labo (they are called out for their scents not smelling like their name) but Le Labo is good at doing something simple perfectly, which is the only way you can do simple. I also rewore Another 13 over the weekend and loved it. Almost salty but faded very quickly. Rewore Neroli for a hot office day and it’s a little too powdery.
Le Labo Iris 39
Official description: Iris is one of the most precious essences in the world. It’s the origin of the creamy and woodsy nobility of this exclusive fragrance. The best of the Patchoulis then waft in, bringing with them sensual depth. The perfume is reinforced by a musky base, our very own secret. The result is remarkable elegance. The fragrance features Iris, Patchouli, Violet, Musk, Civet, Ylang-Ylang, Ginger, Lime, Cardamom and Rose.
My review: Old sample of Coco Chanel that you found in a random drawer, department store, licorice, red cherry-scented marker or Sharpie, violet candy aka candy that you don’t want, school-sponsored function, a holiday party at an older neighbor’s house. Fades to soap. For me, a no.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Indiemakeupandmore/comments/128soyf/perfume_sample_review_barre_studio/
INTERNET
Jacob Higgins Courtyard Marriott in westbury NY https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gDQRY6/
https://www.milkadamia.com/products/oat-milk-slices - would this make a good lasagna?
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gmqwjt/
RHORI - forgot to say that it’s nuts that the only housewife not from RI looks exactly like all the other women
Bertucci’s rolls in most recent episode of Hacks
Qaxwo (qah-wo) Somali spiced coffee
Gorgeous commune Monlucon in France - went to Google Maps and the first restaurant to pop up was Burger King. Reminds me of the time when my sister had a French student subletting a room in her apartment for the summer and he ate MAC-DOHN-AL every day.
Speak of the devil Y’ALL, I was talking about how Paula Deen popularized seven minute icing last episode and then Paula Deen’s seven minute frosting coconut cake came up on my TikTok algorithm. You make three cakes, stack them, poke holes in them with a spoon handle, and brush each layer with a sour cream and sugar mixture. Then you marinate it in the fridge for 3 days at which point it looks like a mess and you put the worst frosting known to man in it https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gSw92s/
Speaking of people who have been cancelled, I’m watching The Valley, the darkest show on television which if watched by every American would result in the birthrate plummeting to 0%, there was a perfect stack of pancakes. Cartoon pancakes with butter on a plate. They played a cymbal song as the plate of pancakes is revealed. One of the husbands who is pressuring his post partum wife into sex is the one carrying the stack of pancakes to his wife, probably to guilt her into sex. Brian said they must be frozen pancakes, or catering pancakes, they were too perfect. Brian said “but isn’t he from Montana or something? Maybe he can actually make pancakes”. He’s from Colorado which is fake Montana. And then Brittany goes to a restaurant and gets potato chips. Janet and Jason are the only straight couple on the show that isn’t horrifying; Jason is a lawyer who fully supports his wife and cries at the thought of what she went through to have a child. However, Janet is the villain and is barely on this season. Last year she got so much online hate and death threat comments that she, Jason, and their baby ran away to Switzerland, where apparently the internet doesn’t exist. Every time I watch this show i internally scream WHY ARE ALL THESE WOMEN MARRIED, which is what the trunchbull screams in Matilda. People are also complaining about the way Lala ate a drumstick. If anyone is surprised start the show over
My toilet looks like a perfect stack of pancakes. Or stomach folds
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gST4Bo/
Top Chef Season 23 Episode 6
Everyone is sad about Rhoda being gone and has turned to the drink
Justin’s shorts are so short they aren’t visible under his chef’s coat while his wife is in a full body sling that is basically a hoya lift. She’s being airlifted around. It’s like when Katya does a performance to Wind Beneath My wings as a lifeless body and six men carry her around and she eventually gets pulled up by a rope into the rafters.
Lawrence and Anthony start talking about D&D and World of Warcraft. We don’t need to see this.
No quickfire this week because they’re doing BBQ
Brandon shows us an awful tattoo of a pig wearing a chef’s hat, surrounded by billowing smoke on his arm. Don’t be proud of that. He has whole hog experience.
2 teams of 5; each team will be given a whole hog to smoke
Anthony and Justin are captains; Anthony’s first pick is Lawrence because of their bond over D&D. Justin obviously picks his wife even though she only has one arm. Then she starts talking about how much she likes ham and will buy a Honey Baked Ham for herself and eat it alone.
They are “leaving the city” to go sleep over night at a place called “Splendor Pond” which is a housing development.
Sieger has done a lot of whole hog cooking and has worked with Rodney Scott and is being annoying about it. He’s on Justin’s team. But Seger might be a sleeper hit. But he’ll probably flop because that’s how these challenges go when you have a lot of pressure on you to perform your specialty.
Went to a wedding in Asheville on a hemp farm once and Brian was in charge of watching a whole hog smoke overnight and he fell asleep next to it and woke up unable to talk the next day because of all the smoke.
They go to Lexington BBQ which looks good. I’ve never had BBQ in NC which feels nuts. They all slam a bunch of meat and pile into a hot car. I bet that car stinks.
Sherry is making Bossam as a nod to Momofuku. Why are people ever doing any type of nod towards David Chang?
Tom Colicchio shows up to Splendor Pond to make everyone do a S’mores competition. Tom sits down in an adirondack chair and can’t stop smiling. Oscar wins for making a spicy s’more.
Josh wine commercial reveals that the guy who founded Josh isn’t even named Josh. Josh is his dad’s name. Why would he call it that.
Sieger loses his round.
Laurence wins overall. He and Sieger both did the loin so it’s an even bigger loss for Sieger. Laurence removed the loin before smoking the hog which was smart. Sieger ends up going home.
Last Chance Kitchen: Sieger doesn’t show up but Tom says he won’t reveal why until next week. Rhoda, Nana, and whoever the third person is (Brittany) have to compete with each other for cash using ingredients that the chefs in the competition purchased blindly, one of which is duck heads. Brittany says that winning some money would be nice but just getting to cook with Rhoda and Nana, who are apparently two of her closest friends, is a win in itself. They’ve known each other for about a week. Nana wins $5k with a fried green tomato. Nobody is going home because for some unknown reason
America’s Culinary Cup Season 1 Episode 7
We’re back to America’s Culinary Naptime sponsored by Dawn Powerwash
Culinary science and technology is today’s commandment. They have ten techniques to pick from and must feature at least one in a dish.
They have five hours to make as many dishes as they can. Each dish must feature one of the ten techniques. The judges taste the dishes as they are ready. I have no idea how the point system works.
Katie has molecular gastronomy experience so let’s see how quickly she crashes and burns.
The first dish up is by Buddah and it is Dippin’ Dots.
Katie makes crab brandade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandade
Buddha’s second dish is the worst dish that Padma has ever had from him – unpeeled onion and runny egg yolk soup.
Matt makes a tempura fried caesar salad.
At half time: Keith is sweating because he doesn’t have any experience but is in 2nd. Chris, who everyone voted most likely to lose the competition, is in 1st and has pumped out 3 dishes. Beverly and Cara haven’t put out any dishes.
Padma and the judges eat 40 dishes over the course of the five hours. Padma wants to die.
Final scores: Buddha first, Cara second. Keith and Beverly have the two lowest scores. Beverly, who was voted most likely to win the entire show in the previous episode, is going home. She is crying a lot. Bye girl. She says “just because my time on the show ends here doesn’t mean that my story doesn’t keep moving forward” like yeah you’re not being killed off.
Padma says she needs a foot rub even though she was sitting and eating all day. Cara, who is pregnant, is the one who news a foot rub. The two male judges offer to each rub one of Padma’s feet. Things are getting weirder. Maybe this show isn’t so straight afterall.
April 13, 2026 (Monday)
9am: Little Waves coffee with half & half, made at home.
10:30am: A slice of toasted sourdough with Isigny butter, made at home.
12pm: Whole Foods garlic and herb water crackers.
3pm: A slice of chocolate cake with vanilla mascarpone buttercream.
6pm: Chicken katsu with Bull-Dog tonkatsu sauce and marinated gigante beans over arugula, made at home.
Chicken cutlets: flour, wet (expired Kewpie mayonnaise, pickled banana pepper vinegar, mustard, milk), panko
I once had an opened bottle of Kewpie mayonnaise on a shelf, and my cat would poke holes in it with his claw and press down on it with his other claw to create a mayonnaise dispenser and would lick the mayonnaise that would come out of the holes. I don’t know how long this has been going on before I found out, but I probably threw it away.
April 14, 2026 (Tuesday)
8am: Little Waves coffee with half & half, made at home.
9am: A leftover chicken cutlet with ketchup.
11am: Garlic and herb water crackers.
2:30pm: Garlic and herb water crackers with salted mozzarella.
6pm: Baked shells with gigante beans, ricotta, and mozzarella, made at home.
7pm: Blue Bell Cookie Two Step ice cream.
Pasta beans recipe https://share.google/UWpp7HK11PnZUp1z4
Beans are great because I don’t have sausage or meat on hand
Pasta bake: Olive oil, Bianco DiNapoli crushed tomatoes, chicken stock, onion, garlic, two chiltepin peppers, ricotta, mozzarella, gigante beans, shells
Slowly collecting chive blossoms to make chive blossom vinegar and it is slowly turning purple so I’m making purple vinegar. Remember when that pastor spoke out about Tinky winky being a tool to turn kids gay because he was purple and had a purse? I’m making gay purple vinegar to anger the christian community. Will eating purple foods make you gay? Is that why Mariah Carey tried the purple food diet? Remember when insane people were claiming that fluoride made people gay? Fluoride is purple so maybe they’re onto something.
April 15, 2026 (Wednesday)
7am: Little Waves coffee with half & half, made at home.
9am: A cup of coffee with half & half at the office.
Cake room: A tulip cookie and a butterfly cookie on a white plate from the Whole Foods cookie bar, and two boxes of Exploring Canada milk chocolate maple leaves, one with maple and seasalt, and one with ice wine, a gift from the University of Toronto Press.
11am: Leftover pasta bake and an Exploring Canada maple leaf milk chocolate with ice wine at the office.
4pm: Garlic and herb water crackers with Little Sesame x Bianco DiNapoli tomato basil hummus (Sunday sauce).
6:30pm: Roasted baby potatoes and North Country Vermont cheddar sausage, and marinated gigante beans over arugula, made at home.
7:30pm: Blue Bell Cookie Two Step ice cream.
Thought of the Koi Pond surgeon as i drove to work
Lamented to my mother that I’m drinking a full pot of full caff coffee a day now and she says what’s wrong with that? I asked her if she ever did and she said no.
Parking lot at work smelled like magic bars (the recipe from the back of the can of Eagle brand condensed milk)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_wine; the Canadian government issued chocolate was good quality milk chocolate flavored rather than filled; very subtle, some complexity rather than cloying sweetness, which I was afraid of. Dessert wines. Remembering the time when I was a teenager at a hotel and me and my sister were the only ones at the 4pm cheese and port wine / sherry tasting and was appalled at the taste. When we didn’t have internet and only had access to watch Fraiser, Brian took me to a Spanish place in Durham owned by the Mother & Sons people and we had a sherry tasting (because Fraiser loves sherry) and it was nasty. Let’s drink medicine. Aperol.
Bianco DiNapoli tomatoes made a huge difference in my tomato sauce, especially making a sauce without any boosted flavor from any sort of meat product (although I did add a touch of chicken stock). I always thought this was a BA scam but maybe not. Sunday sauce in parentheses? It’s great but I don’t know if this is the flavor I want in a hummus. Feels like a combination of flavors that would happen if your fridge fell over. Tastes like a fridge accident. Leftover spaghetti flavored hummus. ON SALE of course.
Cherry and Yuzu Mandarin Spindrift (21, 6)
Cherry tastes like diluted cherry juice
Yuzu is very yuzu forward and snappier
Either could use more lemon
Whole foods organic milk gusseted top cartons finally added a plastic cap and spout. Maybe Whole Foods listens to my podcast. Jeff Bezos is my #1 listener.
Straightiolab meat brands
April 16, 2026 (Thursday)
7:30am: Little Waves coffee with half & half, made at home.
8:30am: Leftover baked shells.
12pm: Grilled provolone, Virginia ham, and stone ground mustard on heritage grain sourdough toasted in butter, made at home.
5pm: Baby potato and roasted cauliflower curry with basmati rice, made at home.
7pm: Heirloom popcorn with butter and chili lime seasoning, made at home.
I’m always waking up with a migraine on Thursdays and I’m starting to make the connection that it might be related to being in the office. My office burnt down at one point and they had to rebuild it in the 90s. I think they’re using OK construction materials in the 90s. It might be the coffee or the water a UNC student did a water test recently as part of a project and discovered that all of the water on campus had lead in it anyway Thursdays are my favorite day because I try not to schedule any meetings and I mostly just get to sit around and be alone.
I love to fry leftover pasta and get a hard sear on it.
I’m so bored of podcasts that I’m listening to Trixie & Katya again. Replaying the episode I just listened to.
Speaking of branded meat, pre-sliced deli provolone was called Andrew & Everett. Who are they?
https://andrewandeverett.com/products/provolone-sliced/
Wellshire Farms virginia ham.
Heritage grain sourdough was soft like the SF sourdough but had better fermentation and crumb structure. Toasted on both sides for structure.
Brian sent me the Angus Barn steak house menu while on his lunch break. First time in a while he didn’t have meat for lunch so he probably had to read a steak menu to compensate. I was actually reading the menu two days prior even though we aren’t going for 3 weeks so not that insane.
Potato and cauliflower curry
3TB butter, 1 red onion, mustard seed, 2 cardamom pods, chinese chili flakes, dried curry leaves, kashmiri chili powder, curry powder, grated ginger and garlic, yogurt, tomatoes, sugar, msg, vinegar, salt, cream, butter
Used the last of the tri-color heirloom popcorn from Durham co-op and last of the Trader Joe’s chili lime seasoning that I got a few Christmases ago and expired last year.
April 17, 2026 (Friday)
7:30am: Little Waves coffee with half & half, made at home.
9am: Grilled provolone, Virginia ham, and garlic Texas Pete hot sauce on heritage grain sourdough toasted in olive oil, made at home.
11:30am: Garlic and herb water crackers with Little Sesame x Bianco DiNapoli tomato basil hummus.
6:30pm: Leftover curry and rice.
7:30pm: Blue Bell cookie dough ice cream.
Got up at 7am to water my roses because we’re in a severe drought and then a random rain storm rolled through
I drank over a pot of coffee and was insatiable all day long
First female or maybe non-binary or however they identify Terminix person showed up today. I usually try to hide from the men of Terminix so this was a delight. Terminix sort of sounds like a gender neutral term for a pest inspector, like Latinx, which I guess has fallen out of favor and linguists now prefer to use the letter “e” as a gender neutral ending in Spanish instead of “x” now. Learned this in a webinar that I co-hosted for work with the Perez Art Museum Miami, which does interesting art video programming called PAMM TV. However, this is the second Terminix representative to drive up onto the hilliest, steepest part of my lawn and park their truck on the side of the hill. At any moment their truck could roll away. They asked if it was ok, because some people are particular about trucks driving up onto their lawn. I mean, if you’re ok with your truck being sideways on a hill, I guess I’m ok with it? I just don’t understand it. Also, why do you need to drive into my lawn?
April 18, 2026 (Saturday)
8am: Little Waves coffee with half & half, made at home.
9:30am: Half of a leftover Vermont cheddar sausage.
11am: A cold brew with half & half from Cocoa Cinnamon in Durham, North Carolina.
11:30am: Fried bluefish, potato wedges, slaw, and collards with tartar sauce and Texas Pete hot sauce at Saltbox in Durham.
3:30pm: Leftover curry and rice.
5pm: A small pour of Broomtail Brewing brown ale.
6pm: A baked murasaki sweet potato with chive blossom Isigny butter, made at home, and seared scallops in brown butter, made by Brian.
Went to the garden expo
Man with buzzard problems
Donkey drinking out of a 10 gallon kikkoman bucket
Man selling ice cream at 9am
All the classic basil was pre-ordered; Cinnamon basil, which I’m not sure whether or not it’s Thai basil, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_basil , purple basil, dolce fresca
Stood in long line to get coffee. Coffee person asking how to spell Caitlin
One employee dropped tongs in the ground and then picked them up and put them back where they came from. Not great. Menu is too long and involved; just make great coffee.
Got to Saltbox early to get soft shell crab and they don’t even have any.
Got the last blue fish special which probably isn’t good. How long has that been around.
Collards too sweet. Coleslaw tasted 2-3 days old and the lemon juice had turned. Anything made with lemon juice and meant to be kept raw or fresh should be eaten same day. Potatoes were whatever. Fish was fine, not too oily. That’s not a great review. “Wasn’t BAD.”
Kenji frozen sweet potato method: cook at 300 for 2 hours with aromatics in foil, then at 450 for 40 minutes. The comments are bad. People can’t tell the difference. My supervisor said it is great.
Asked Brian if he wanted to sear the scallops and he somehow turned it into a 4 hour project. When he makes a packet of ramen in turns into a whole ordeal with bowls, multiple pans, cutting boards, knives. The potatoes had a 3 hour timer countdown so he could time the oysters to be ready at the same time and I don’t know why I thought that would work. Didn’t start cooking the oysters until 30 minutes after the potatoes were done.
Scallops from the beach. Is that a stupid thing to say? Scallops are from the beach.
I don’t know if I love scallops. I remember the first time I had one when I was very little in Vermont and ran to the bathroom to spit it out. If Brian had been on Top Chef they would have told him that he should have seared it on both sides. Brian said that the meal tasted like a Top Chef challenge where they tell you to make something like tastes like clam chowder that isn’t clam chowder. Not sure if that’s a compliment.
April 19, 2026 (Sunday)
8am: Little Waves coffee with half & half, made at home.
10am: Ham, provolone, and egg on butter toasted heritage grain sourdough, made at home.
12:30pm: A brownie with vanilla ice cream, made at home, and a can of cherry Spindrift.
6pm: Thai green curry with murasaki sweet potato, cauliflower, and green bell peppers over basmati rice, made at home.
https://www.thepancakeprincess.com/best-brownie-bake-off-2-0/
Ghiradelli box mix took 2nd which is really all that I want
Tempted to make the Claire Saffitz recipe that uses malted milk powder (I should have just added some to the King Arthur recipe) but it didn’t rank well and I find that a lot of recipes just over complicate things.
Made the King Arthur recipe with some modifications
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/fudge-brownies-recipe
Halved the recipe
Baked at 325 in metal pan for about 24 minutes
Used half butter, half peanut oil
3.5oz 90% Lindt Dark Chocolate bar instead of chips
200g 10x instead of granulated sugar, plus 1 tablespoon Dave’s coffee syrup
I underbaked it. Tastes very similar to the Ghiradelli box mix. The Lindt bar was very old which comes through, flavor-wise.