Dark and chewy brownies.

3/4 cup of butter or margarine
4 (1 ounce) squares of unsweetened chocolate
2 cups of sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups of unsifted flour
1/2 tsp of salt
1 1/2 tsps of vanilla
1 3/4 cups coarsely chopped pecans

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

Melt the butter and chocolate in a large, heavy saucepan over the lowest heat.

Remove from heat and mix in the remaining ingredients in the order listed, beating well after each addition.

Pour the batter into a greased 9×9x2 inch pan and bake for 40 minutes until brownies just begin to pull away from the sides of the pan.

Cool the pan of brownies upright on a wire rack until they are room temperature then cut in 16 squares.

They are about 350 calories per brownie.

*These are nothing like Alice’s Restaurant brownies.. you won’t need to go to drug rehab after eating them!

Here are a couple reasons why you should always use the plastic/rubber exam gloves that come in the boxes of hair dye.

A girl I worked with dyed her hair without using those gloves. She used black dye. Yep.. you guessed it.. she ended up with her hands stained with that dye and it took months for it to finally fade away.

Another dummy (me) never used the gloves when I dyed my hair (when I was much younger). The blond dye I used had peroxide in it and my fingertips always turned white from the peroxide. I use the gloves now without fail. It’s bad enough I forget to use gloves when I clean my kitchen. Lesson learned!

Always use gloves when dying your hair or using harsh cleaning products.