recipe

Brownies.

So Bake Off started again last week, god I love this show. Zac isn’t a cake kind of guy but he loves the show too, so we decided to do some baking of our own this weekend. We thought brownies would be the perfect solution to satisfy the baking bug. I found this brownie recipe on Pintrest, it is really simple and easy to make. Find the recipe bellow.

These brownies are quite rich so I thought a simple berry sauce would help cut through the chocolatiness -I think it works really well, maybe even a little Black Forest Gattoesque 😛 Greek yogurt or cream also goes extremely well with these brownies if you want to enjoy them more as a dessert.

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Ingredients

155g unsalted butter

150g sugar

2 eggs

15g cocoa powder

1 tblsp corn flower

3 tblsp pain flower

1/4 bar chopped dark chocolate

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

Method

Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C and line a deep baking tin with paper.

Combine the sugar and butter in a microwave proof bowl and melt in the microwave for 1 minute on a high heat, stir well and leave to cool for 5 minutes.

Add the cocoa powder and vanilla to the butter mix.

Add one egg at a time to the batter and stir with a whisk.

Next combine the plain and corn flour, and baking powder to the batter, to create a thick rich mix.

Carefully fold in the chocolate chunks.

Spread the mixture into the lined baking tin and put in the oven for 20-25 minutes.

;eave to cool for 30 minutes and then cut into 12 pieces.

While the brownies cool make the berry sauce

Ingredients 

100g of frozen/fresh berries

20g sugar

20ml water

Method

Combine all the ingredients in a microwave bowl and cook in the microwave for 2 minutes.

Ta- dah! these are so easy to make.

Bream on the Barbie.

It’s been an absolutely glorious weekend here in London. When the weather is this nice what can you do but buy three crates of beer and whip out the BBQ. We invited some friends round yesterday and had the classic barbie: sausages, burgers, chicken and everything meaty and macho washed down with plenty of bottles of Bud. The food and company was perfect, that and the sun made it such a lovely Saturday in the garden.

bbqWe brought the cutest little BBQ from ASDA the other day- just in time for the lovely weather. It was only £10! and I 100% recommend it to anyone after a small and easy portable BBQ. It comes in a few different colours, we chose this little red number.It’s the classic round style with a lid on a small stand its perfect for anyone with a small outdoor space, for us it works particularly well in our split level garden.

Today with bellies still full after one too many burgers we decided to do a lighter, fresher BBQ. We whipped ourselves up some chili king prawns to start followed by Sea Bream stuffed with lemon and garlic butter rubbed in chili oil, served with grilled pak choi and tomatoes -Oh my god it was the most delicious thing I have every tasted and so proud we cooked it ourselves. I know some people are funny about fish especially if it still has a head but there is nothing to be scared of when it comes to cooking a whole fish. It’s moist and so so simply to cook.

Bream

Sea Bream is a delicious choice, at approximately £1.80 per fish its pretty cheap and a perfect substitute for the usual chicken and beef on the BBQ. Simply season and stuff with lemon butter and garlic and then grill over hot coals for 5-7 mins on each side until the skin is crispy and the flesh cooked through, rubbing butter on the inside will ensure for perfectly succulent flesh and a melt in the mouth butteriness. You can serve fish with so many things but here we went for a Thai feel and grilled sliced Pak Choi with cherry tomatoes- but you could easily have rice, salad or Mediterranean vegetables.

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It was absolutely delicious. We sat outside with a glass of wine by the warmth from the bbq enjoying the perfect end to our lovely weekend in the sun. I hope you too have had a great weekend. And lets hope the weather stays nice for more weekend BBQs to come.

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Small Red BBQ: ASDA http://m.direct.asda.com/george/george-home/portable-kettle-bbq-in-red-34cm/001679167,default,pd.html?cgid=D26M09G09C02S01