Blogging has eaten into my family time,
which means I have less time,
for motherly at home things,
such as cleaning up,
cooking and baking.
Recently I decided to try to address this.
I contacted a domestic goddess friend of mine.
She is the mother,
my children wish they had.
She looks fantastic.
Her house is always,
the perfect blend of homely yet tidy.
But above all she is,
the most fabulous cook.
“Please help, I implored,
I am looking for a recipe for chocolate brownies”.
In no time at all,
she had appeared at my door,
armed with what she told me,
was a “fool proof” recipe.
Well how excited we all were.
My two youngest girls.
could almost taste those brownies.
We set to work,
measuring and beating,
following that “simple” recipe to a T.
At last we were finished.
The oven was shut,
and we sat smiling,
in our bomb blitzed kitchen.
The minutes ticked by,
and the excitement grew.
I boiled the kettle,
in eager anticipation of warm brownies.
At last, time up.
I called my two apprentice chefs,
and we eagerly opened the oven door.
The delicious smell filling the kitchen.
It was then we saw it.
The flat, burnt at the edges,
nothing at all like brownies,
creation we had baked.
Our hearts sank.
WTF?
My friends words were going round my head in a loop.
“Foolproof. Foolproof. Foolproof”.
I stared at the flat,
semi burned creation on the tray,
I then looked at my two girls.
“Oh dear”, I said pathetically.
My older child began to laugh hysterically.
As she repeated between convulsions,
“You said it was foolproof!”.
My youngest could not hide her disappointment,
“Can we just cut off the burned bits?”.
I bravely carried on,
as if all was perfect.
I cut those millimeter high,
hard, almost black, crispy brownies,
and put them into boxes.
Then I passed those “brownies” round for tasting
No gooey centre.
Just mega crispy crunches.
We ate our brownies,
in silence, accompanied by,
a large dollop of disappointment!
Later that night,
my friend the domestic godless texted me,
“How wuz brownies?”.
I replied with a text,
“All good. Out of oven two hours.
How long before they rise?”.
She is still laughing weeks later.
But in our defence,
I think we got the wrong recipe.
She gave us a “fool” proof recipe.
We passed the test.
It is obvious, we are no fools.
I will await the clever cooks recipe.
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This was a welcome treat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahahaha! 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it. Laughter is great medicine. I hope it worked for you.
It felt good indeed.
My first smile today: How long before they rise? Ha ha ha!
I am taking two weeks off to reorganize my office and update the blogs– I plan to see you when I get back. 🙂
I’ll miss you. Good luck with that task, it is not one I would excel in, a bit like my baking! 🙂
Thanks for this, made me laugh out loud! needed that today, well, any day!
My pleasure! 🙂
this post reminded me of my childhood
every now and then, my mother would make a tray of fudge or toffee for me and my sis.
we never knew which it was going to be – and neither did she
it was exactly the same recipe every time but until she opened the oven door none of us knew what was going to emerge
fudge or toffee ?
either way, we pigged out on it ! 😆
Good thinking. In future I will bake alone, see what comes out and then announce what it was I baked!
very funny,I also have a few of those’fool’ proof recipes…
It’s an awful curse to be so clever!
There are only a few of us around!
i love this and it is clear you really made chocolate crunchers supreme treats or something your could rename them, and it is lovely that you are such a talented writer and wonderful person.
Thanks a million. Maybe I could launch my new product at the blog awards!
I had a really good laugh over this…probably because I have done it myself! However, I would have talked the children into believing that the burnt part was the best part, just like hotdogs, and grilled cheese sandwiches:). Better luck next time!
If I could have got rid of the laughing, ridiculing sixteen year old I might have had a chance. She was the one reminded me of this incident this week, as she does regularly.
Brownie crisps sound pretty good too 😉 maybe you just created a new treat!
Sadly they sounded better than they tasted. But may I add the majority of them were eaten.
haha! waste not want not 😉
THIS recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/nigella-lawson-brownies-32053
Or possibly this one (also by Nigella Lawson but I haven’t personally tried it. It just uses more basic ingredients) http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/everyday-brownies-recipe/index.html
And consolations!!
I do hope these are clever peoples recipes. I will let you know if they are in my IQ range! 🙂
I like Nigella’s recipes because I have found them to be very VERY amenable. To things like having the wrong sized cake pan and an oven with..um..’unpredictable’ temperatures. So that when you open the door to see how close to finished the cake on the door shelf is, the cascade of raw overflowing cake batter disappearing into the pan drawer and trailing across the floor takes you by surprise. So you whack the temp up to something random and leave it in for 30 minutes more than the recipe says. And it STILL turns out amazing? That’s my kind of recipe. (Her dense chocolate loaf, by the way, that one was.)
I am definitely going to look into her recipes. They sound like ones which are just at my level. I particularly like that the chocolate loaf is “dense”. As I say, just my level!:)
Oh gosh yes. Anything that doesn’t come loaded with expectation as to how it MUST turn out is good in my book (which is why I make tea loaves and not sponges, or meringues!)
LOL! Sounds like me in the kitchen 😉 At least your children ate them…
Hunger is great sauce! 🙂
Hunger is great sauce! 🙂