End of holidays, Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies and Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Have you ever realized that as a rule of thumb, you are not really announcing anyone when your holiday starts (if you have a holiday, that is) but then you announce everyone when your holiday ends? If not, then it’s definitely my case.

Right… what did we do… Brownies!

Well, I was trying to find something soothing and chocolaty for Ana. And I came across this Hollywood recipe. Or one version of it. Yes, apparently there are several brownie recipes that Madam Hepburn was fond of. Ironically, they all look pretty much alike. Slightly different quantities of raw materials sometimes, entirely different materials some other times. Yet, they all call it Her recipe. Fine by me, as long as it tastes good. As a matter of fact, it is possible that she modified Her recipe depending on what materials and quantities were available to her… which is exactly my type of cooking

Hence, I started my “famous” brownie saga.

Ingredients (used by us):

100 gr. chocolate

115 gr. butter

100-150 gr. sugar (granulated)

2 eggs

2 tbsp. all-purpose flour (2 tbsp normal wheat flour + a bit less than 1/4 tsp. baking powder)

1/4 tsp. salt

50 gr. sunflower seeds

20 gr. sesame

50 gr. cashew nuts (slightly chopped)

vanilla essence

How to:

First of all, you should preheat the oven until 165 degrees Celsius. Use some butter/ oil and flour on your baking pan to prepare it for the chocolaty wonder.

Melt the chocolate together with the butter, then add the sugar, mix in the eggs as well and add also the vanilla essence. At the end, add the flour, seeds and the salt.

Pour the mix into the baking pan and bake it for about 35 minutes.

Notes:

1. I don’t know if it was the chocolate or not, but we found Delicatessen, Amélie and Micmacs fantastic movies. Both in the literal sense of the word and in… the other one (figurative). Maybe, JUST MAYBE, it was all because of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of all three pictures. It definitely cannot be the brownies… even if they have a Hollywood flair!

Pictures? You already have three. Look above.

I forgot to mention, last week I was on holiday.

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