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Pictured Recipe: Swirled Cheesecake Brownies

Author Sue Halpern’s rememberances of foods past.

By Sue Halpern EatingWell May/June 2008

Oven-Fresh Brownie & Cookie Recipes

It was mud season when the real estate agent drove my husband and me up a long driveway to a house in the Vermont woods she was hoping we might buy. The owners had just stepped out, she told us, retrieving a key from its hiding spot and pushing open the door. The house was immaculate. There was no mud in the mudroom—nor were there shoes or jackets or hats. In the hallway bookcase there were only a handful of volumes; in the bathroom, a single towel. Either the owners were the tidiest people in the world, or they were no longer in residence and hadn’t been for quite a while.

And then it hit us. A smell, welcoming, familiar and downright homey. It curled like a beckoning finger, inviting us into the kitchen.

“Oh look,” the agent said sweetly. “The owners must have made a batch of brownies before we came over.”

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