This happened a few weeks ago, so I don’t remember who it was that broke my heart.

We were at the beach, and it was this other person’s — whoever she was — turn to make dessert. She chose to make brownies and put a box of brownie mix on the shopping list.

I said, “You know, we could make our own brownies.”

She said, “From scratch?”

I’m pretty sure the thought of making brownies from scratch had never entered her mind, possibly in her entire life.

I mention this because I recently made two batches of brownies from scratch for coffee hour at my wife’s church.

The brownies that came out of the box mix were fine. Nobody complained, nor was there any reason to.

But the brownies from scratch were special. They were actually kind of spectacular.

The brownie recipe came from Lia Holter’s n

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