In a small bowl, blend the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Set aside. Melt the baking squares. Cool to room temperature. Wash tofu under running water, then thoroughly whip it in your mixer until creamy. At low speed add the oil, melted chocolate, vanilla extract, applesauce and raw sugar. Mix until the raw sugar is somewhat dissolved, then add the peanut butter and honey. Mix for another minute until well blended. Add the cocoa/flour mixture. Blend thoroughly, about 2 minutes. Fold in the tropical source chips and the nuts. For added raspberry flavor, swirl the raspberry jam mixture into the dough by dropping mounded tablespoons on top of the dough and run a knife through it to blend. Pour mixture into a well oiled 8" square pan and bake for 30-35 minutes at 350 degrees. Allow the pan to cool before cutting. Yields 16 2-inch brownies.
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though
ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak,
mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers,
thou has dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams has
moved amid the world's foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust,
and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate
earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful
water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or
diver never went; has slept by many a sailer's side, where sleepless mothers
would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw'st the locked lovers when
leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting
wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw'st the
murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell
into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed
on unharmed -- while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would
have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou has
seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one
syllable is thine!"
-- H. Melville, "Moby Dick"
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