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brownies made, vic market visited
August 26, 2005
I went to vic markets bright and early before work this morning and bought
fruit: passionfruit, kiwi fruit, mandarins
veg: cucumber, asparagus
nuts/legumes: 250 mixed nuts, 250g spicy hotel mix, plus some minestrone bean mix
chicken: 4 low fat chicken and veg rissoles, 2 "Italian roll ups" - chicken thighs stuffed with ham and cheese in a napolitan sauce, 300g of organic italian meatballs (these looks so awesome), 500g chicken tenderloins
deli: 200g sliced jarslberg, three dips (spinach and pinenut, tomato and fetta, capsicum and eggplant), a few dolmades and some stuffed minature sweet chillis that look awesome
I have to rejig my meal plans for this week a bit since I walked away with some things that weren't on the list but that were too yummy to pass up!
I also got a few things from the party supplies store including a 50 pack of little plastic containers for putting salad dressing or little bits of sauce in, which I've been hoping to find for ages. Plus a couple of plastic noodle boxes that would be perfect for packaging bikkies or other little gifts, and some curling ribbon.
I carted the whole lot plus my work handbag which included a big batch of brownies I baked last night for Mash's birthday, all the way back down to work which is about 25 minutes. It was heavy and I came back sweaty! and rewarded myself with a nice excessive breakfast of coffee with two sugars and toasted ham, cheese, and tomato sandwhich with butter. YUM! And I have an orange and pineapple juice from the markets for later.
The brownies are from the recipe I mentioned here. I put in about 150g of walnuts and about 100g of choc chips instead of all nuts. They are too rich and sweet for me, but I will see how others like them! (Mental note, adding extra chocolate without reducing the sugar was my mental folly!) If I make it again I will try cutting the sugar down to 400g, and maybe a little more flour. Perhaps 180g instead of 140 (although I didn't trust my measurement yesterday, using an analogue scale that looks different depending what angle you are standing at. I must get a digital scale one day. It would be good to get one for my birthday actually). Also I cooked them for about 65 minutes to get a knife to come out clean where the recipe indicated 40 minutes! So I might need to cook them at a higher temp next time, my oven is probably a little weak. They came out extremely fudgy and extremely sweet, probably a lot of people's wet dream of brownie so I am looking forward to seeing the reactions. I dusted them with icing sugar which I love the look of but rarely do.
Update: these were absolutely adored at work, I think next time I will still cut down the sugar but leave everything else the same. In other news I found a digial kitchen scale for $45 on the weekend and snapped it up.
Anyhoo, going to the market before work is a great idea and I will definitely do it again on weeks that I can delay starting work till 9am. It was great being there without a big crowd as well! They had some nice looking flowers too that I would have picked up if I didn't have so much to carry already :)
Posted by lee_taylor at August 26, 2005 10:43 AM