Are You Ready for Some Brett Favre?

On the best Sundays, my favorite days, I bake and watch Brett Favre play football. I also do laundry and other stuff around the hose when it's so very cold outside. ;-).

Everybody loves football and most football fans love SI's Sportsman of the year: Brett Favre ( Sport's Illustrated 12/10/2007. I admire him for so many things: his longevity, his tenaciousness, his athletic prowess his dry sense of humor and his commitment to the game. I wish we had a quarterback like that in Philadelphia. But Brett is a once in a lifetime archetypal guy.

Everlasting Love Brownies by Bet

One 12oz. package Nestle Tollhouse Semisweet Chocolate Morsels, separated into 2 two cups

½ cup, 1 stick salted butter

3 large eggs

1 and ¼ cup Bisquick Baking mix from Betty Crocker

½ cup Splenda for baking

½ cup granulated white sugar

1 teaspoon real vanilla extract (35% alcohol by volume)

½ teaspoon real lemon extract

¼ teaspoon baking soda

½ cup Quaker Oats

½ cup chopped nuts

Melt butter (cut into 8 pieces) and one cup of chocolate morsels over low heat. Remove from heat stir in eggs. Stir in all ingredients up to baking soda. Stir in remaining morsels, oats and nuts. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven until done about twenty-five minutes. Bake in two greased 8x8 inch square pans or one 8 inch cake pan and one 8x8 inch square pan like I did this morning for variety's sake. Cool in pans. Make two dozen square brownies.