CJ's Recipe for Almost Brownies

[cjsmith]

0. Book with recipe
1. 3oz. semi-sweet chocolate
2. 3oz. ... oops, I only have 2oz. unsweetened chocolate
3. Another ounce of semi-sweet to make up for it
4. Butter, flour, eggs, etc
5. A nut grinder
6. 2pr. pliers
7. Oven which, on Saturday, took 2hrs instead of 1hr to make meatloaf

Open book. Realize that the worst part of this whole brownie thing is chopping up the chocolate. Get out the nut grinder. Attempt to chop up chocolate with nut grinder. Produce tiny volume of what appears to be cocoa powder. Hear bad noise. Stop.

Open up nut grinder. Use pliers to rearrange all the cutting tines. Alternately crank and pry until bad noise stops. Give up and chop the chocolate the "hard" way. Get surprised by how fast and easy the "hard" way is.

Melt chocolate and butter, add eggs etc, pour into pan.

Burn the whole thing because the oven has now decided to cook faster than normal.

Comments

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

"whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing [at you] behind your back."

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

Hey! That's my line!

And since I'm going to Burn in Hell anyway, I can't resist:

At least you remembered the flour.

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Yes... but the flames are prettier if you forget the flour.

Just sayin'.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I didn't get to that part. That must be the good part.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Are you referring to my carrot cake lo these many years ago (can't remember whether I told you that story) or something in your own past? :-) Wait, I seem to recall some story about Amanda along these lines as well. What is it about flour?

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

I was referring to the Amanda story. She made brownies but forgot the flour. It made a lovely dessert topping. The best part of the story is that her sister independently did the same thing a couple of months later. So it's genetic.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was a fast-moving virus. I have no idea if my carrot cake was at or near the same time as the two sisters' brownies, but it's the one and only time in my life I've ever done that!

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

It was Fall '93. So it's possible, but a narrow window, since we'd just met you at Quads.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah. Mine was way earlier, probably 1988 or so.

I was a latent carrier! She caught it from me, bwahahahaaaaaa!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Not behind her back. That's to her face this time.

One of those evenings, eh CJ?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Eh well. :) At least I made (what for NOW APPEARS to be) perfectly serviceable pizzelle dough that evening as well. My oven can't ruin THAT! It's made in a waffle-iron-thing!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm... waffle pizza dough... ;-)

Do you have a good oven thermometer? Something is obviously wonky.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't, but I can see that oven may need fixin' soon.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Last night I could hear it!