Tuna, or is it Casserole?

I just though of this funny little story to share. For any of you that might ever be in the vicinity of Corey and I when we talk about cooking, we may start to crack up at a reference to "Tuna Casserole".

I am hoping that he can, maybe fill in more details, but what I remember is that he had made a lovely birthday dinner for a friend of ours (way back in the high school/early college days). This is actually a great story of how the whole 'telephone game' can work or, in this case, not work.

If I recall correctly, another one of our friends was telling me about this magnificent dinner he had made and some how translated in her mind a Tuna dinner - as in a piece of tuna acoompanied by other wonderful foods, into good, ole' fashioned, down-home tuna casserole.

Now, the way my grandma makes tuna casserole, which I love, by the way, is with canned tuna. Knowing Corey, the gourmet cook he is, that is about as far as one could get from the beautiful meal I am sure he prepared for our friend!

To this day, when we are talking cooking and mention of tuna comes up, we both crack up and think "Tuna Casserole!"

Brownies anyone?

Ok, so this isn't quite a "worst" recipe, but I just had to share.

This weekend I made some brownies, yes from a box (but a REALLY GOOD box!) from Trader Joe's if anyone needs to know. Something came over me, possibly that the thought of using an entire stick of butter, AND my last stick of butter at that, was too hard to swallow. So, I replaced half the butter with coconut oil and also greased my pan with coconut oil.

YUMMY!

As one friend pointed out, they tasted almost like a Mounds or Almond Joy candy bar!

HOWEVER, for future reference, should you try this little technique, I highly recommend using less total oil than the recipe calls for because they are a bit on the greasy side.



I brought the leftover brownies to the office to share and one of our bookkeepers, who keeps a gluten free diet, directed me to this amazing brownie recipe made with -- of all things -- BLACK BEANS!! I will have to try this sometime, she says that they come out fantastic! Here is a link to the recipe: Amazing Black Bean Brownies. I am hoping our 'test kitchen' (Ahem, Karen) will try these out.



As a result of this discovery, you can now enjoy other fine recipes from 101Cookbooks.com by clicking on the link on the right of this page. In addition, Hannah will be one of our new authors for this blog.

Which, reminds me....Hey you Worst.Recipe.Ever bloggers, haven't seen any of you post recently!!!