more decadence

[rone]

Tonight Kim cooked some smoked pork chops, and made some pesto to go with some angel hair pasta and asparagus from our garden, plus salad that contained fennel, broccoli and lettuce from our garden (and green onions from someone else's garden).  It was all fantastic, and i opened a bottle of Norman 2002 Mephistopheles zinfandel (PDF).  It's dark, rich, complex, obviously tannic for a zin but not too much so, and hot (œnospeak for "high in alcohol").  Kim then whipped up a batch of Mrs. Donnelly's Brownie Mix, which cost $20 (!), but, hey, the samples at the store were unbelievable.  And the brownies do rock, and pair very well with the wine.  I also have a Norman `02 old vine zin waiting in the rack... mmm.

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

If you're all about the decadent brownies-of-death, I cannot recommend this recipe (http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/102992) highly enough. Use a high-fat/low-moisture butter like Plugra, top-notch choc. and cocoa like Valhrona or El Rey, and line the pan with parchment as these can be a little difficult to get out of the pan cleanly. The reviewers are right, these are *much* easier to slice if you wait a day or so after baking -- but they're so rich that folks who've had them before will probably clamor for you to cut and serve them ASAP.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that i like Plugra on English muffins?