Reminder, this month’s theme is “Belly up to the Bar” and the makes are bars of some sort.
This is because it is very hot and the surge warnings from the electric company are real. Which means I have to keep the electrical consumption to a minimum. Bars usually only take 40 minutes to bake, instead of the two hours it takes to bake a batch of cookies. Every little bit helps!
This week’s make is a broccoli-feta bar. Or call it a broccoli-feta brownie if you want, although there is ZERO chocolate. I wonder why it is called a brownie.
Be right back.
Well, that was a rabbit hole!
The first records of the word brownie hail from around 1520. Yep, just over 500 years ago. It was meant to signify the color of the baked good, as it was brown. It is synonymous with a chocolate dessert cookie. According to Scottish and British folklore, a brownie is a small creature that lives in houses or barns and likes to work. Kind of like a J.K. Rowling’s house elf without the slavery.
Ahem, I digress, but that is what a research rabbit hole is for.
Where was I?
Oh, yes, the CTIAT make of the week.
It is also a bit of an experiment on my coworker. I have no problem taking the leftovers home and eating them for breakfast.
But, if you are one of my coworkers, give the make a chance.
You might like it.
Even if it has green stuff in it.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 