Box Brownies?

I was reading the Washington Post's Food section on Wednesday and found a new recipe for brownies, Man-Catcher_Brownies to be exact. I proceeded to tell my girlfriend about the recipe and that I thought I'd make them. To which she responds,

"I don't like homemade brownies".

How can you not like homemade brownies? You can control all the chocolaty goodness you put in them. I should have learned by now that she doesn't mean ALL of them just the few she has tried.

Her mother tried to make me feel better by telling me about the peanut butter maker she had when the the girls were younger. Long story short about the peanut butter. My girlfriend and her sister like processed food.

So my girlfriend decides that she's going to make brownies from a box while I'm standing there saying I'd like to make her brownies. You'd think that I would be a rational person and think:

1)YEAH!! now I don't have to cook

2)If you make brownies from a box there's less to clean up

3)well I don't know what the third rational argument should be but there should be one (if you come up with it let me know).

At this point I've decided that I shall pout and say that processed brownies are horrid. I also decide I will not eat one of her vile brownies with God knows what in them. I have not made boxed brownies since I was eight. That's two entire decades I've gone without making or eating them. To her credit the

Ghiradelli Triple Chocolate Brownies

she made and I relented and tried were quite tasty. However, as someone wanting to go to pastry school I can not believe that she made such a blanket statement about homemade brownies.

Since the brownie blunder we have talked and I now understand that she doesn't dislike all homemade brownies and she will try any I make for her. I just hope and pray she likes them.

Stay tuned for details of the dinner I'm planning for our pre-Valentine celebration.