Untie Pat's foolproof brownies

I made some brownies for Bianca's coktail party

its easy
its fast
its adaptable-you can throw in whatever you want in it
and most importantly its idiot proof

Untie Pat's Brownies

142g cooking choc (you choose-dark/milk)
115g butter
2 eggs
150g caster sugar
85g self raising flour
1teaspoon vanilla essence
salt
Optional: nuts/fruits/choc bites of your choice


1. Melt choc with butter bran marie over low heat
2. In another bowl, beat eggs until thick then add sugar
3. Stir in the cooled melted choc
4. Add vanilla

5. Stir in sifted flour and salt
6. Add your optional ingredients

7. Pop in the oven- 180C for about 20 mins




I ended up making 4 different kinds of brownies that night
one with sliced almonds
one with pecans
one with dark choc bites
and another with dried blueberries that Amy got from Cosco for me
That night i used milk choc-because that is what i had in my cupboard
but i find that when i do use dark choc with milk choc bites
it turns out way way richer

HOME

I flew to home couple of weeks ago for about 3 weeks

i think i ate pretty much most of the food that i crave for
and when i say eat- that means none stop eating action
most of the time i eat them up and then realizing that i should be taking picture first
but by then they are all happily swimming in my tummy

.black seseme bean with lotus seed.
moon cakes are a sweet treat.
the only problem i find that the whole wide world much prefer yolk in it
im the only normal one who don't :)
i love the most is black bean with lotus seed inside.
its chewy stick in the mouth texture is a pure delight for me
i cont get here in melb- well its hard to find like i said because all the weird ppl who enjoys yolk in their cakes



.pan mee soup.
ooooh i love this. this shop only sells this noodle. obviously in both dry and wet but the wet seams to be the most popular one.
the wait is half an hour but f during office hours it would be about 1 hour or maybe more.
which i dont know how office ppl could go out for their one hour lunch and wait for more then an hour for their noodle soup.
the noonle is not really a long skinny noodle, its hand made with rice flour. so you will get flat long ones and short flat ones.
the soup is made of just a simple ikan bilis and moni leaves with a heapspoonful of ajinomoto
serve with crunchy ikan bilis, shitake mushroom and mince meat.
(think im gonna try making this soon soon-drools)

.ice kacang.
ooh i cannot tell you how dissaopited i am when my favourite penag ice kacang stall in Gaint was no longer there. so we had to look for alternative :(
This is from Oriantial Cravings in 1Utama
i would give a 6-7 out of 10
i still crave for my Gaint ice kacang
sob sob

I did had the best wan tan mee which melt in the mouth: as my dad would say it
did a trip to thailand which i enjoyed eating the mango sticky rice


imagine one whole mango sliced with stiky rice and a drizzle of coconut cream



.pulut.
my grandma makes this for me every year for chinese new year. its a glutinous rice which
she put beans in it to create a different texture to it. she then wraps it in a palm leave to make a triangle shape.
pull the bottom side of the tiangle and dip the rice cake in condensed milk.
i think i had 10 during my trip to kedah
.kao yum.
kao is rice and yum is NOT yummy but when you mix them all the ingredients together
i love this (by now you should realise that im a food junkie)
first you pour in the brown-blackish sauce over the rice- so that the sauce would absorb into the rice rather then coating your vegies
then you put in the rest-whatever you want to your liking.
The main ingredient is the rice, sauce, dried shrimps which has been finely blended and dried fried coconut.
the rest of the stuff would be cumin, serai (lemongrass), bean sprout, ulams (malaysian herbs), chili, and a squeze of lime.
there is no meat involve so i guess its a vegetarian dish then.
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i would need to post up soon.
some one is requesting for my tiramisu recipe as well as the choc moooossss