Rain, walking and ultra-chocolate

What an insanely odd day. To say the very, very least.

Copious amounts of rain and being squished on a train with the entire population of the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, all of whom were heading to Sound Relief. Although it was comparable to the trip last week after work where there was a really uncomfortable half-hour of being at eye-level with someone's groin.

Could have done without that, thanks Connex. Do not like your idea of more standing.

Anyway.

I got rained on on the walk home, and felt oddly not too bothered by it. It was just nice to be getting rain and even nicer to be able to actually walk. After so long of not being able to safely put much pressure on the ankle, it's nice to (slowly) wander.

Now that I'm home, I'm being all domestic and baking chocolate-chip cookies of such supreme chocolate-y-ness that it makes your teeth ache just looking at them. And to be honest... shhh... don't tell anyone... But I've never made cookies before in my life. And I cannot emphasise enough how very, very chocolate-y they are. And you can thank Nigella Lawson for them.




Ultra-choc Cookies

250g plain chocolate
125g soft butter
125g brown sugar
130g plain flour
30g cocoa
1tsp bicarb
1/2tsp salt
1tsp vanilla
1 cold egg
250g chocolate chips

> Preheat oven to 170 degrees c.
> Beat butter and sugar together, and then add the egg. Melt the 250g plain chocolate and then beat that into the sugar/butter mix.
> Mix together all the dry ingredients, then beat them into the sugar/butter/chocolate mixture, along with the vanilla.
> Mix through the chocolate chips by hand.
> Use a tablespoon to scoop out spoonfuls of the mixture, ball it up and then put it on a baking tray. Bake for 15 minutes/as long as necessary. They firm up quite a bit when you take them out of the oven, so you don't have to worry if they're kind of moist when you remove them.

They're nice. But just one of them makes me go, "Woah, too much chocolate. Is that even possible?! It seems so wrong!"

Update: All done!