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The ADVANCE, February 3, 2021/Page 11A
Feeling the love this
February with Pink
Cheesecake Swirled Brownies
Azure
Rountree
Fun, Delicious
and Festive
L ove is all around us this
month, so make sure to
show your sweetheart
how much you admire them
with something delicious!
The Pink Cheesecake Swirled
Brownie is a thick, rich and
decadent dessert bar
that will give that special
someone everything to be
desired this Valentine's Day.
With a dense chocolaty layer
and creamy cheesecake
swirled on top, this brownie is
the ultimate treat to bestow
on others this February!
Pink Cheesecake Swirled Brownies
1 Va cups All-Purpose Flour
V2 teaspoon Salt
6 (1-ounce) Semi-Sweet Baker's
Chocolate Baking Bars (broken
into sections)
2 (1-ounce) Unsweetened
Baker's Chocolate Baking Bars
(broken into sections)
3 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder
1 V2 sticks Unsalted Butter (% cup)
(cubed)
1 % cups Sugar
4 large Eggs (room temp &
beaten)
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Preheat oven to 325 de
grees. Grease and line a 9x9
inch pan with wax paper, mak
ing sure to let the excess paper
extend over the sides of the
pan. Combine the flour and
salt, then set aside. In a large
heavy pot and over medium
heat, add the semi-sweet choc
olate bars, unsweetened choc
olate bars, cocoa powder and
butter. Cook while stirring until
melted, then remove from heat
and let cool. Add the sugar to
a large mixing bowl along with
the beaten eggs and vanilla ex
tract. Stir in the cooled choco
late mixture, then stir in the flour
mixture until combined. Spread
the batter evenly in the pan,
then prepare the pink cheese
cake layer.
Pink Cheesecake Layer:
1 (8-ounce) package Cream
Cheese (room temp)
1 1 /3 cup Powdered Sugar
2 teaspoons All-Purpose Flour
1 large Egg
1 V2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Pink Food Coloring or Gel
In a medium size bowl and
with an electric mixer, beat
cream cheese while adding
the powdered sugar and flour.
Beat in the egg, vanilla extract
and pink food coloring. Drop
dollops of the pink batter over
the chocolate layer, then with a
knife, swirl slightly to marble the
top of the brownies. Bake on
the 3rd (middle) rack for around
1 hour and 10 minutes or until a
few moist crumbs come off of a
wooden toothpick when tested.
Let cool completely, then us
ing the wax paper as handles,
remove the brownies from the
pan and cut into bars.
Kid Friendly Recipes from the
Kitchen of Azure Rountree is
available at The Advance. A
portion of the proceeds from every
book sold will go to benefit children
with special needs.
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Is Penicillin still an important medicine?
Penicillin, which revolutionized
the practice of medicine in World
War II, remains a “wonder drug”
almost 90 years later, and its impor
tance is still growing.
In 1928 Alexander Fleming
(1881-1955), a British scientist at
Oxford, engaged in
research on bacte
ria, examined his
petri dishes con
taining staphylo
coccus. One dish
was littered with
the bacteria, except
for one spot that
contained mold,
which was later
identified as penicillin. Continuing
to study the mold and finding that
it did kill certain bacteria, he pub
lished his findings in 1929.
Ernst Chain (1906-1979) and
Howard Florey (1898-1968) came
to work at Oxford in the 1930s and
were able to help purify penicillin,
making it usable as a drug. There
had previously been no medicine
that could prevent the diseases cre
ated by bacteria. Together, Fleming,
Chain, and Florey shared the 1945
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medi
cine for their discovery.
Almost overnight, the antibiotic
tamed a host of infectious diseases
that had crippled and killed people
since ancient times. It is still the best
medicine for infections such as gon
orrhea, syphilis,
impetigo, “strep”
throats, pneumo
coccal pneumonia,
sinusitis, child
birth fever, lung ab
scesses and spinal
meningitis. Peni
cillin’s special abil
ity is that it affects
only actively mul
tiplying bacteria without harming
human cells.
The development of penicil
lin also produced more knowledge
about the interaction of the human
body and chemical agents, leading
to production of safer medicines
and to the creation of synthetic
drugs. The main infections that doc
tors treat every day are caused by
strains that succumb to penicillin
therapy, making penicillin the most
widely used class of antibiotics.
Tillery: Week Three Highlights
This week be
gan the start of
Senate committee
meetings. This is a
process that allows
us to review each
piece of legislation
that is presented be
fore us and ensure
it is in the best pos
sible state before it
reaches the Senate
floor and provide an opportunity to listen
to expert testimony from those involved.
While we have just started to ease into
the “other items” part of this schedule,
the House Appropriations Committee fi
nalized their proposals for the Amended
Fiscal Year 2021 budget and passed it out
and over to the Senate on Thursday. The
Senate held its first subcommittee meeting
on this item at 6:30 a.m. Friday morning. I
expect it will make it to the Senate floor by
the second week of February.
The House made several key changes
to the Governor’s recommendation to
support the growing needs of our state.
The biggest increases went toward funding
to public health for COVID-19 response
efforts, including:
• $18 million to modernize the Geor
gia Immunization Transactions and Ser
vices program. On the Senate side we may
amend this slightly and use these funds to
show Georgians where vaccines are avail
able online and help them schedule vac
cination appointments at the same place
in real time. I’ve heard from many of you
on your constant frustration at calling the
current vaccine hotlines multiple times
for hours just to try to schedule a vaccine
appointment. We can do better and we
would like to simplify and automate this
process.
• $256,000 to bolster the Department
of Public Health’s chief medical officer and
Information Technology positions to as
sist with COVID-19 guidance.
• $19 million total to nursing homes
and skilled nursing facilities to help them
fight COVID-19 in these facilities.
• $15.4 million to provide funds
for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program
(ADAP) to help them with their vaccina
tion program.
The House made other additions in
the state’s largest budget category, educa
tion:
• $38.6 million to fund 500 extra
school buses.
• $2.6 million to increase the special
needs scholarship fund.
• Added funds across the board for
the University System of Georgia to help
universities across the state with their op
erations.
The first elections bill was also filed
this week. It would require photo identi
fication with absentee ballot requests and
the absentee ballot. But this bill is only the
beginning. I am expecting at least a dozen
elections bills to be filed on Monday and
Tuesday of next week. They will work
through the committee of Sen. Max Burns
(R - Sylvania), who our area knows well as
our former Congressman.
One highlight of the week was a visit
at the Capitol from our former state Sena
tor and my friend, Tommie Williams. Sen.
Williams is fresh back from an appoint
ment from the Trump Administration
through the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture as the minister-counselor for agricul
ture at the U.S. Mission to the United Na
tions Agencies for Food and Agriculture
in Rome, Italy. He addressed the Senate
concerning his recent tenure, as well as the
issues we face. It will be a joy to have him
back home again in our area.
Next week, we should conclude Sen
ate subcommittees on the Amended Bud
get for Fiscal Year 2021 and will likely hold
a vote on that matter before the full Appro
priations Committee. We will also get the
first look at many of the
elections bills many of you
have discussed with me in
dividually. Again, I expect
at least a dozen of these. I
look forward to updating
you on both those topics
in more detail then. Until
then, if you have any ques
tions or concerns, please
reach out - my office is al
ways open. Thank you for
allowing me the opportu
nity to serve you here.
Sen. Blake Tillery serves as
Chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
He represents the 19th Senate
District, which includes
Appling, Jeff Davis, Long,
Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs,
Treutlen, Wayne, and
Wheeler counties and a
portion of Liberty and Tattnall
counties. He can be reached
by email at blake.tillery@
senate.ga.gov.
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Fun By The
Numbers
Like puzzles?
Then you’ll love
sudoku. This
mind-bending
puzzle will have
you hooked from
the moment you
square off, so
sharpen your
pencil and put
your sudoku
savvy to the test!
Level: intermediate
Here’s How It Works:
Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine
3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each
row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row,
column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will
appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The
more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
8
4
4
9
1
5
0
9
2
1
5
2
0
1
0
4
5
7
4
0
8
2
7
9
By Sen. Blake Tillery
(R-Vidalia)