Starting on Thursday, March 19, I’ll be blogging here with my usual mix of food news, interviews, and recipes. If you’d like to reach me in the meantime, please e-mail me or drop me a line

And, if you were just coming for my mom’s brownies, I don’t think she’d mind me sharing them here. I believe she originally found the recipe in a fund-raising cookbook from Delaware, my home state:

Mom’s Senate Brownies
2 sticks butter
4 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups walnuts
6 ounces chocolate chips

Melt butter and chocolate in saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat.

Stir in sugar until combined.

Add eggs, 1 at a time.

Stir in vanilla, flour, and one cup walnuts.

Spread in greased 9×13-inch baking pan

Top with 1/2 cup walnuts and chocolate chips

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

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