Monday, October 30, 2006

Chocolate lovers

Today I decided that I had waited too long for Nan to bake me my cake. I went to WalMart during the week, bought the cake mix and the chocolate chips and left it in a rather conspicuous place in the kitchen, hoping that Nan would see it but she never baked it. I guess she went on strike with me and my demands for chocolate anything. She always tells me about how I must be really stupid to read the instructions on the box and still not do it right. Well, my problem is that the instructions on the box do not follow with our recipe and after a brownie accident, i gave up baking for a while. Well 7 years actually. That's how long i havent baked a cake.
Tonight, nan told me that i needed to put a little more flour in the mix to substitute for the eggs and just add the oil and water to the mix. I did that and I also added my chocolate chips. It's dark chocolate chips and a dark chocolate cake...Does that make it healthy? More importantly, do i care when it comes to chocolate? Well yes, but for the taste. It's about the only thing i really like to have a good taste. Dark chocolate tastes like real chocolate. I like the cocoa flavor. The milk ones are too sweet and completely lacking in the cocoa flavor. So according to Nan, the first taster of my cake, "it taste arite." That means it was really good. While it was baking, Nan came, looked at it and said, "Lawd, look at dat ting!" I didn't smooth over the top fully and it was a little bumpy but otherwise, it smelled really delicious. And for some reason, after it was done, i didn't want any of it. It's part of the reason i refuse to cook--It takes the fun out of eating.
I also baked a store bought pizza and put my own pineapples on it. It was really good but i missed the mustard. We ran out of mustard. yes, i am one of those freaks who put mustard on their pizza (I would have put ketchup and pepper sauce too if i liked ketchup as much as i like mustard and if the pepper wasnt so hot). Nan told me a long time ago that mustard helps to digest cheese better. For an almost lactose intolerant person, it's a great thing to know.
Okay, for the brownie story now. I was in high school and i had to make a molecular model so i decided to make a brownie and draw on it. At the time, I used to eat eggs but that day we had none because we were fasting. So I decided that i would make the brownie without any eggs. Well when it was done, i put it in the freezer to cool so i could ice it quickly and i went over to my cousin's (she lived next door). An hour later, i came back and the brownie was hard like a rock! I had to thaw it out. While it was thawing out, Vin went in the kitchen and saw the brownie. Now Vin can eat chocolate! He cannot resist seeing anything chocolatey. So he decided to have a piece of the brownie. Vin takes a knife and he attempts to cut the brownie but it wouldn't cut. He gets desperate now and he gets a bright idea to take the rolling pin and start chiseling at the brownie. The knife breaks and sails across the living room onto the couch. We searched and searched and couldnt find the blade of the knife and no one wanted to sit on the couch. Finally, after a few hours, we find the complete blade sticking out of the couch and life goes back to normal.
There were two good things about this brownie. It was hard like a rock but it was chocolate and therefore it could not waste. I was prepared to dip it in my tea! It turned out to taste very very good, actually and the second thing, I got the full marks for the project.

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