When Amanda of i am baker posted the idea of doing an appreciation post for the significant others of food bloggers on the Facebook group “Food Bloggers Helping Each Other” I jumped at the chance to participate. Seriously, these guys and gals deserve a little lot appreciation! It might seem pretty awesome to be married to a food blogger…you know, elaborate dinners on the table every night and desserts galore, but I’ve got news for ya: it’s not always like that. There’s definitely some baggage that comes along with it too. To give you a little insight into what it’s like to be married to a food blogger, I’m going to play a little game called “You Know You’re Married To A Food Blogger When…” today and oh, and there’s a little Q&A with Marc too.
You know you’re married to a food blogger when…your significant other bakes brownies but unfortunately for you the lighting wasn’t right today to take pictures, so you can’t eat the brownies until tomorrow.
You know you’re married to a food blogger when…your significant other tells you that you can only eat the ugly cookies, because the good looking ones are for pictures.
You know you’re married to a food blogger when…dinner is done being cooked but you know you won’t be eating for another 15 minutes until the pictures are taken.
You know you’re married to a food blogger when…during that 15 minutes of waiting for pictures to be taken, you’re expected to help hold the reflective white board, blow the steam out of the way, or help with an action shot.
You know you’re married to a food blogger when…you get interviewed at dinnertime about what you think of the meal. There is likely a notepad on the dinner table for quotes.
You know you’re married to a food blogger when…you know not to start eating at a restaurant until pictures can be taken of everything to be Instagrammed.
You know you’re married to a food blogger when…it’s not strange to hear her refer to her food blogger friends by their blog names instead of their real names, as if then you will know who she is talking about. (You won’t.)
And finally, you know you’re married to a food blogger when…you can’t just have tacos for dinner. You have to have browned butter buffalo chicken quinoa tacos for dinner. Or whatever food craze is trending at the moment.
And now, a few questions for Marc.
1. What is your significant other’s favorite blog called? greens & chocolate (note: Marc read the question wrong and thought he was being asked what his favorite blog is called. Major husband points for him)
2. What is their favorite prop? She has an entire room of props and I just stay out of that room.
3. What is the weirdest thing you have seen your spouse do for a blog post? We stopped at a coffee shop in the middle of a backpacking trip so she could finish a blog post.
4. If you could have your own blog what would you call it? Greens & Chocolate Food Taster
5. What do you do for a living and what are your hobbies? I’m an emergency medicine resident physician. In my (very little) free time I like running, biking, skiing, backpacking, and hanging out with my beautiful wife.
Ingredients
- 1 cup 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 12 oz bag fun-size Butterfinger bars, roughly chopped
- 3/4 cup white chocolate chips could use semi-sweet too
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Spray 9x13" baking dish with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- In large bowl with electric mixer, beat together butter and sugars.
- Add eggs, one at a time, until completely combined.
- Add vanilla.
- In medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Slowly add flour mixture to butter mixture, mixing on low speed until combined.
- Fold in Butterfinger bars and chocolate chips.
- Spread batter into prepared pan. It will be very thick so you can use your hands or a spatula to spread it out.
- Bake in preheated oven 25 minutes, until golden brown. They will still be a little gooey in the middle but will set up once cooled.
- Cool completely then cut into bars.
- Enjoy!
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Erin from Texanerin Baking made Healthier New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Diane from Created By Diane made Rocky Road Cookie
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This post cracked me up… because it is oh SO true! Love that adorable picture of you and your husband and love these blondies!
aw! I love this! And I bet Michael could relate to sooo much of that lol. And these blondies look awesome-I looove butterfingers!
Hehehe loved the “You know you’re married to a food blogger when” — so funny! You guys are adorable and these blondies need to happen in my kitchen NOW!
LOOOOOOOOOOOVED the “You Know You’re Married To A Food Blogger When…” list!! Made me giggle…. outlout…. several times!!!
Evan as a food blog reader, these were funny! And I quiz my husband about meals anyway, which drives him crazy 🙂
Awww, this is so cute! Love the interview. The blondies are delicious looking.
holy yum. and love this post. lol at “you know you’re a food blogger when. . .” totally fits the description in my house!!
Hahaha #2 and #3 – love it!!
That is the cutest picture of you guys. Well, one of the cutest, because I couldn’t pick just one. 🙂
You two are SOOOO cute!!! And I love his blog name, I am still giggling about it. The part at the top is HILARIOUS!!! So true!!!
loved your view on “you know your married to a food blogger” so true, these blondies look wonderful and you hubby sounds like a lot of fun!
This is so fantastic. Reading your “you know you’re married to a food blogger…” I was pretty much “Yes! Yes! that’s hilarious” for every one.
So cute! Totally can relate to everything you said about “you know you’re married to a food blogger when…” (cue my husband rolling his eyes in agreement ;)). Now pass me a whole pan of these blondies, please!
SO TRUE! I am going to print off this list to bring home and read during dinner. I almost died with the line about “you can’t eat those brownies till tomorrow.” Guilty as charnged!
What a CUTE pictures of you two! And is it bad I laughed and agreed with every statement? Totally do it all!
I absolutely LOVE the the “you know you are married to a food blogger” section. I know my family can relate to most of those. Great interview! Love all the supportive hubbies out there!
LOL those last two. I say names all the time and he’s all WHO? And I can’t just make regular cookies. NEVER.
What a cute picture! I loved this post! Oh my gosh those are all so true! I have to get my hsuband to start holding my reflectors! Butterfingers are my favorite, I have to try these!
Ha! Only eat the ugly cookies! I say that at least once a week. And have been known to hold brownies hostage. You guys are so so cute! I will now have a stack of butterfinger blondies please. YUM!
LOL at the name of his blog! I LOOOOVE IT! So supportive…props for the hubs!!
My mouth watered up just as I read the title of your recipe… wow!
Love those jokes! That last one is especially true! And I’m loving these blondies, I’m always looking for good blondies recipes.
Aaah! I love your list. So funny. And so true! 🙂 And that’s such a cute picture of the two of you.
These blondies look amazing, too! Love Butterfingers.
so cute! ryan can definitely relate! 🙂
You two are adorable! And I’m so happy to meet another Minnesota gal! I may live in Colorado now, but Minnesota will always be my home. Love it there.
I LOVED this post!! I was laughing out loud reading the whole thing. It’s all so true. We’re freaks but I think they like it. 😉