Cheese

I learned a little something this week when I made the Bon Appetit brownie recipe. Are you sitting down? Made-from-scratch brownies taste much better than the ones that you make from a box.

These brownies are assault and battery by chocolate with a deadly weapon of cream cheese frosting thrown in.

This recipe has several immediate advantages. It's simple; it requires minimal preparation apart from stemming and halving the little tomatoes; most of the time is devoted to roasting rather than prep (allowing more time to test-drive the dinner wine); and it calls for ingredients that I am likely to already have on hand.