Prologue

One day when I get famous and need fillers for my book, I might give this more thought ..... for now this will do. I claim to be no expert at either travelling or cooking or the random things I write about... But I would like to collate all my good memories (and efforts) into this space for reminiscing on those grey rainy days... What Blog its more of a 'Brag'!!

My Thank You Speech..........

I was introduced to cooking in the early years of my life by my Aayi while I sat at the kitchen dining table while she mixed spices and vegetables to create those sumptuous dishes. My brain took in what I did not intend to learn. My Aayi is a fantastic cook. Each day I woke up to a sit down breakfast of Idlis, Dosas, Upma, Dodak, Usli and the likes. A far cry compared to the ‘eat while you dress’ cereal we make do with these days. Any efforts Aayi made of training me in the kitchen went futile. It is hence ironic that Aayi, ‘my first teacher’ is still to taste anything cooked by my hand. My hard core cooking days started only when I moved to UK with my husband a few years ago. My husband, like a true martyr, suffered through my numerous cooking expeditions. His encouragement, fulsome praise where due and frank critical review drives me to try something new each week. It is to these two people that I owe whatever little cooking I know or strive to know today.

Chocolate Brownie


We hate dark chocolate the two of us. When the airhostess on our flight back from germany handed out Lindt Intense Dark Choceolate we carefully packed it into my hand bag with a plan to melt it into something delicious back at home.
Two weeks later, Mohit and myself scanned the internet for a good Brownie recipe that would use less than 80 g butter and about 70 g chocolate.
A careful research of 8 recipes and Mohit's recipe was born. It turned out very moist and dense.
I made this again on Valentine's day and hence the picture....

butter - 46g
chocolate - 70 g 70% plain dark lindt
mascavado 100g
caster 25 g
eggs - 1.5 big / 2 small
flour - 50 g
choco chips 30 g plain
walnuts 30 g
baking pdr - 1/3 tsp
vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp
1/5 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar syrup

Preheat the oven. Line a baking tray (I used an 8 inch) with baking paper.
Chop the butter and Chocolate into bits and melt in the microwave 10 seconds at a time. Keep mixing and stop when the chocolate has almost melted. Mix to make a smooth paste and keep aside. When cool add all the other ingredients and mix well.
Pour into the baking tray and bake at 180 for 25 mins

tips :
don't put syrup;
reduce castor and maybe increase mascavado but overall reduce sugar
may try with coffee for mocha brownies (2 tbsp strong, cooled)
can try other nuts - hazel e.g.
serve hot with vanilla icecream - yummy

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