Black Bean Brownies (GF)

Last Thursday, I took Nymeria for her spay surgery.  Immediately upon her return home, she was ridiculously wound up, to the point that I had to go get an e-collar for her.  So, up until last night, we had a baby conehead kitten.  At first, she was running into things left and right, but over the week, she got waaay awesome at maneuvering and playing with her new neck shade.  We just got a new kitty castle (play house) from my dad, so we figured her incisions were looking good enough to finally take the cone off so she would be able to play.  The cone definitely didn't stop her from doing much.. like tearing apart the kitchen..

Tessy, not having to do his brotherly duties of watching her very over protectively, since the cone essentially did that for him, had a lovely week in which he quite remembered that he's only a little over a year old - it was like having two kittens again, which I adored.  He was definitely a happy camper!  I'm hoping he continues to stay this way.

So, I made brownies.  Black bean brownies.  It's something you always hear about - something that has either gone really well or really horribly.  Alex's mom made some last year, and she said they tasted like chocolate and beans together, which is definitely not what you'd want from a brownie.  That being said, I was pretty nervous as I threw these together.

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