And then I wandered home to begin the business of cooking all the things I had to cook, including honeycomb chocolate brownies, moules marinieres and a new recipe for home made oven chips before getting down to madeleines. The brownie thing has been knocking around in my head for a while, I thought it would be a stroke of genius to sprinkle fine honeycomb crumbs on top of the (tried and tested perfect brownie recipe) before cooking. I felt a swell of pride as I swept it into the oven which I now recognize as an indication that pure disaster is looming. Roll on 30 minutes to a cinder burnt top and brownie mixture cascading down the side of the tin onto the bottom of the oven with people in the general vicinity wondering what is burning? Next the mussels in the moules marinieres didn't open and the chips were soggy. But I plowed on stoically in the face of adversity because I had promised to make madeleines for work tomorrow. I experimented with 2 recipes - one from allrecipes http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6332/madeleines.aspx and the other from b comm bon http://bcommebon.canalblog.com/ - a blog I adore for it's beautiful food photography. The recipes were quite different - I noticed Julia Child's has another version. Had fun sprinkling half with icing sugar and the other half dipped in chocolate - jury is out until tomorrow!
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein
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