double chocolate brownies

This week is Diversity Week. Essentially, all the cultural groups get together, have a couple of speakers, a bake sale, and a pot luck. This year (Friday) we are having a BBQ and a band play. This is an all law school thing. There's no undergrad cultural event. Sadly, it pales in comparison to the university wide event VCU has each year, and not as precious as SGU's ICSA event. No dancing or silly skits. The whole thing is run by the only Indian girl, only three Muslim girls, and myself. After we leave I wonder what will happen to it. No one else really cares.

I always bring the same thing to these types of events - macaroni pie. You know, that bland macaroni and cheese concoction that was only edible with copious amounts of hot sauce. I say that, but I always loved the stuff. Anyway, I have no idea how they made it - I can never get mine to come out the same. I have my own recipe though. First, I boil orzo (wheat noodle that looks like rice). I drain it and put it in baking dish. Over it I spread shredded cheddar cheese and a cup of milk with an egg beaten into it. Then comes the spices: black pepper, white pepper, red chili powder, fenugreek, cumin, turmeric, and mint. Then a cup of tomato paste, and healthy dashes of a vinegar based hot sauce. Then I add in another layer of a thick noodle (like rig rigatoni). I mix all of this together. Then I pour graded parmesan cheese over it. Bake it at 425 for about an hour. Truth be told I never do it the same way twice. I've got a few variations. All of them are delicious. I change it up to keep people confused.

Oh yeah, this started to be about brownies. For out bake sale someone brought a big box of very delicious and very luscious brownies. I live across from the law school, so after the bake sale all the food was brought over to my apartment. It was supposed to stay there until the pot luck today. I was good, I didn't eat anything... except for the brownies. Killed those things. I discovered that you could take a cup, fill it about 1/3 with brownies and fill the rest with milk. I'm wet just thinking about it...