Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: Homemade Almond Joy's Got Nuts; Store Bought Ones, Not So Much Anymore...

i remember reading an article a few months ago about the average number of nuts, most notably almonds, that were actually found in almond joy candy bars. apparently there is some sort of controversy about using the word "nuts" in plural form when talking about an almond joy candy bar, because some stupid statistical number, like 96%, of the almond joy bars that they tested had one or less "nuts" in them; therefore denoting false advertising. do i need to say it? yes, indeed, someone has waaay too much time on their hands. and to top it off, i'm pretty sure that no one in the world, after hearing that news, was like "oooh shit, you got those almond joy f#ckers! zing!"

well, maybe cheryl burr was listening, because she came up with this bangin' recipe for better than almond joy, almond joy-esque brownie bars. (i must note, although eternally delicious, recipes like this one are exactly why i hate baking. they are incredibly involved. i'd much rather eat them than make them, but they really are worth the effort if you are up for it.)

coconut brownie bars
total time: 1hr 30min plus 7hrs cooling
yield: forty 2-inch honkin' brownies

CLICK HERE FOR THE RECIPE

the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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