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Brownie Pie à la Mode

Nutrition Facts:
Makes 8 servings.

Nutritional Information Per Serving:
Calories 300
Protein 6 g
Carbohydrates 50 g
Sodium 270 mg
Fat 9 g
Saturated Fat 2 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g

Ingredients
1/2 cup/125 mL reduced-calorie hard margarine
1/4 cup/60 mL Baking Cocoa
3/4 cup/180 mL sugar
3/4 cup/180 mL all-purpose flour
1 tsp/5 mL Baking Powder
1-1/2 tsp/7.5 mL Original Double-Strength Vanilla
2 egg whites
4 cups/1 liter nonfat frozen yogurt or ice cream

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Melt margarine in small saucepan over medium heat; stir in cocoa. Remove from heat and add sugar, flour, baking powder, vanilla and egg whites; mix well. Spread batter into 9-inch/23-cm pie plate coated with no-stick cooking spray. Bake for 20 minutes or until pie tests done. Let cool in pan on wire rack. Cut into 8 wedges. Place on serving plates and top with yogurt. Garnish with sliced berries, if desired.

The above recipe is from Watkins Products. If you would like to order the Baking Cocoa, Baking Powder, or the Original Double-Strength Vanilla, please let us know.

New Hobby

Due to an offhand comment made by one of my nieces, I have now gotten into making aprons. The picture to the left is one I made last week for my husband's brother. I make two aprons, one a print for the front and another of a solid or contrasting print for the back (lining), and sew them together. I also make a pocket from the lining material and put in on the front. Since this particular apron was for a man, I didn't put grosgrain ribbon and buttons on the bib area.

I've been lucky enough to sell several of my aprons and have them for sale in a small gift shop not far from where I live. At the present time, I've got about fifteen more already cut out and ready to make. :-)

Habit-forming hobbies...

I'm beginning to think I'm getting addicted to some of the sewing hobbies I'm into. A few months ago I started learning how to make quilts; now it's oven mitts. :-) My collection of comic books and books from the public library are stacking up, unread, as I am constantly sitting at the sewing machine or looking up patterns, materials, and other sewing ideas on the computer. BUT, I must say that I have a lot fewer (if any) over the crafts than I do with the reading material. Oh well, I'm happy!

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We'd like to leave you with this thought: "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23 KJV