Today is my Daughter’s Birthday, so popped round at sunrise with her card (she lives 2 minutes from me) and couldn’t resist taking this photo from outside her home
100g dark chocolate (ideally about 70% cocoa solids)
75g unsalted butter
50g icing sugar
25g flour
2 eggs
Preheat the oven to around 200C. Melt the chocolate and butter in a bain marie.
Mix together the icing sugar and flour in a separate bowl. Then add the eggs and mix well.
Butter two ramekin dishes. When the chocolate/butter is truly melted, pour the mixture into the flour/icing sugar/egg bowl and mix completely. it will go really gloopy
Pour mixture into the ramekins about 3/4s full. Cook for approx 10mins, or until they have risen about an inch.
Turn out onto a plate, serve with a coulis and quinelles of whipped double cream or ice cream
Insidiousness is my pet hate, (definition of ; corrupting. artful, cunning, wily, subtle, crafty.)
as well as the fact we Brits “Queue” patiently, since the influx of Europe its become a free-for-all,
My mate in Wimbledon was knocked flying recently, shes 70 years old diabetic partially deaf had a stroke and has cardio vascular disease, she had just missed a bus and so was first in the Queue, 15 mins later there were a good 10 people, no English speakers (and no I am not being Racist) she went to step onto the bus, was pushed sideways and went flying onto her hands and knees, the result of which was a trip in an Ambulance to A&E ordered by the bus driver, the mob that pushed her over seemed unperturbed, and actually complained that the bus was going to be late at their destination.
I Experienced similar in Australia, I was “Queueing” in a bakery when someone behind me pushed past me to be served first.
I know us Brits can be overly stiff upper lip but C’mon you can’t all be first .
I don’t see death as a taboo, merely as part of life, but, a couple of titbits for you.
there’s a book called “The Power Of Now” by Eckhart Tolle.
his saying in it is this ; The past is gone and cannot be changed, the future is an illusion yet to manifest, there IS only now.
another quote I love is by the Dalai Lama.
“there are only two days in the year you can do nothing about, yesterday, and tomorrow, live for today
couple of my own are ; if today has been a bad day, the sun will set, and tomorrow is a new day. and of course……….. never save anything for a special occasion, every day is a special occasion.