My mom’s chocolate brownies – the best ever!

Happiness, what’s your color? An hour ago I lost you and now I’m already meeting you.

The envy is the greatest devourer of happiness. Of those that go to Man vs. Food Tv program. Envy inhale tons of happiness. And then what happens, where does happiness go? I can’t tell you. I’m one of those little ladies with a lipsy mouth and the nose with the smell that does not say the word with m, or with c. Depending on the degree of finesse in not pronouncing it.

How would Carrie say:

I can not help wondering: why do we have to evaluate ourselves by relaying to others?

To the success of others. In the times of others. To the thinness of others. To the sympathy of others. To the beauty of others. To the salaries of others. To the other mansions.

Don’t you feel enough? You’re not “enough” in fact. You are all you need and everything you want, but you may not be aware of it.

The thing is “imagine: you can” exist. So why waste your days becoming green?
Green is the color of Grinch and you love Santa Claus. It’s not stuff for you.

Love yourself that God loves you, this is a sacred truth. Or is it said, “God helps those who help themself”? Biblical parallelisms are not my strength. But there is no bad situation in the world where they do not fit perfectly. Be aware that lusting anything that does not belong to you becomes the worst way of losing time.

Yesterday, at a particularly light-minded moment, I told a friend:

This bad thing is perhaps the only way to get to the most beautiful thing ever.
And today I also say it to me. Read it and weep. And now I’m happy again.

A bite of these chocolate brownies, a kiss of mom and it’s all gone.
Better than patches with drawers.

My mom’s chocolate brownies – the recipe

INGREDIENTS (serves 6)

• 200 grams of dark chocolate
• 120 grams of butter
• 200 grams of caster sugar
• 95 grams of flour
• 15 grams of cocoa powder
• 2 eggs
• Half a teaspoon of baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 50 grams of hazelnuts
• 50 grams of almonds

PROCESS

1. Melt the chocolate and the butter  in a water bath.
2. Once melted, pour it into a boule. Add sugar and a pinch of salt and stir with a wooden spoon.
3. Add also the flour and cocoa, mix well.
4. Incorporate an egg  at a time and finally add also the baking powder.
5. Add almonds and hazelnuts.
6. Pour everything in a baking tray … lined with baking paper . Bake for 25 minutes at 170° C (30 minutes maximum, mom tought me – and she is right – that brownies have to remain moist inside and with a slight crust in the surface … I do the “finger- test “. Last time I lost my finger.)
7. Let it cool and slice in squares. I can’t tell you how amazing they are – but mum’s one are certainly better. She says that it is cause brownies are too simple for my complex mind.

While you’re tasting listen: Only love, Ben Howard

How good these chocolate brownies are… I can’t describe it. But my mom makes it better. She says it’s a too simple recipe for me, and, for me, one thing must be complicated to succeed.

Ph. Sara Cartelli
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