Auntie Tor's Brownie Recipe

These brownies are pretty tasty, if I do say so myself. I'm not normally the biggest brownie fan as I'm not a big dark chocolate fan, but even I like these ones and they where gone in 5 minutes when I took them to work.
I got the recipe from my aunt, who got it from a TV programme but she reckons she has tweaked it enough not be plagiarised.
These are quite quick and easy to make so here we go.

Ingredients:
225g Unsalted Butter
100g Dark Chocolate
200g Caster Sugar
4 Large Eggs
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
50g Plain Flour
50g Cocoa Powder
Pinch of Salt
75g of Hazelnut Pieces
Makes roughly 18 large pieces.




1. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Melt the butter and chocolate over gentle heat.
3. In a separate bowl mix the sugar, eggs and vanilla.
4. Mix in the melted chocolate and butter with the sugar eggs and vanilla.
5. Sift in the flour and cocoa powder and mix.
6. Mix in the hazelnut pieces.
7. Pour into a pre lined baking tray.
8. To add something a bit extra, take some small hazelnut chunks (get the hazelnut, put it in a bag and bash it until you get some nice small pieces, or go to Tesco where they sell them already bashed.) and sprinkle them on top.
9. Bake for roughly 25 minutes (baking time depends on how thick your brownies are).
10. Take out the brownies, leave to cool then cut, or if you are like my boyfriend, dive straight in!

Enjoy!

                                                                                        

Hungover Sunday

So on Saturday I hosted a dinner party, which resorted as always in one too many glasses of wine. I felt pretty sorry for myself on Sunday morning so me and my boyfriend decided to sort ourselves out by having a proper breakfast. As well as French Toast and some sausages, we also made Breakfast Cups, a recipe that I got from one of my all time favourite websites, Domestic Sluttery.

So they are a little cup formed from a piece of bread with some bacon on top and a egg, very easy to make. 

They did make for a pretty looking breakfast when we was feeling far from pretty. They tasted great too. 

The egg was baked, which I have never had before, to me they tasted more like fried eggs, which is my least favourite type, also the yolk wasn't runny, which is more my fault for overcooking it, so definitely need to remember that for next time.

A bit later I still was feeling a bit rough, so I turned to my most trusted hangover cure and that is a some salted popcorn and a full fat Coke.

I think the salt helps get rid of any nausea you may be feeling, but its also very gentle to eat so not going to upset your stomach or make you feel worse and the coke is full of sugar to give me enough energy to get myself in the shower, which always makes you feel better.

Hopefully I won't have to talk about hangovers any time soon because I am going to steer clear of drink for a while, I just can't deal with the hangovers anymore and end up wasting so many time!

No doubt I will slip off the wagon at some point, so if I do any more hangover recommendations?