What song is what food?

I didn't have hazelnut extract yesterday so I used Rum in a white chocolate chip hazelnut cookie. Rum is "Black." I'm not much of a drinker, but recipes call for it, and I had extra. When I poured a couple teaspoons the smell definitely took up the batter. Alchohol was burned off and then the initial sense wafted away, lost in a batch of cookies/good wishes to be shared.

Brother - instrumental - is spicy hot. A chips and salsa type of thing as opposed to pad thai with tofu spicy.

Rock n roll = quick meal before a concert, and then drink whatever you need to at the concert. May include nachos, quick sandwiches, pizza slices, who knows. When I was in Boston the meal before the May 24th concert included a spicy spaghetti meal then canolli and an espresso afterwards. What a good memory for a concert. Second night I had this wonderful beef spaghetti. I missed the opening band, but that's ok, I was happy.

I myself drink water at concerts. For this thread I reference individual songs. Some people can see a song in a painting or a book, or a memory. I thought, hey, what about food?

However, if we are talking about meals, PJ is definitely spaghetti to me, obviously, and finishing with a plated dessert and an espresso drink. No salad, but bread and olive oil before the meal is served. Man, I want to go back to Boston. One day, one day, whenever PJ plays there again, I will be back in Boston.

The song where they feel the magic in their hands. Whatever that is, probably a live song

I had all the ingredients for this new spiked apple cookie, but I didn't want to make it, and I was just reading reading, and then I thought to read one of my history of chocolate books. I usually don't look at recipes in those types of books, but then I saw that there is a Lowney's brownie recipe, and the only chocolate necessary was 2 oz unsweetened chocolate. Not bittersweet, not dutch processed cocoa, but unsweetened chocolate. I had unsweetened chocolate from a previous recipe, and i needed a way to get rid of it, and here it is!

So, since the ingredient list was very simple, the entire recipe was simple, I decided to add a technique I learned from a brownie recipe I tried a while ago. After the butter is melted take it off the double boiler and add the suger, then heat again until it's almost melted. It adds that top layer of shiny crust that's cool. Anyway, I did that, and i felt very priestess like: I found a new recipe just to get rid of old ingredients and I applied new techniques. Very cool. I think baking knowledge is learned in the head of course, but is applied through the hands. It's like I feel I have knowledge in my hands. One day one day croissants!

So, let's just say Porch E. Rutherford June 3, 2006 because that song blew me away. They must have felt like magicians and not just musicians I wonder if they felt the music more in their hands or their hearts or their heads or what?

It's actually a very good recipe from I forget the name of the book, I'll add it tomorrow. If I remember correctly the recipe consists of the following:

2 oz unsweetened chocolate - I used callebut: A
1/2 cup butter - I used european style: B
1/2 flour: C
1/2 tsp salt (?): D
1 cup sugar: E
1/2 cup toasted pecans: F
2 eggs: G

I added a lot of steps that I'm used to:

Preheat oven for over 20 minutes to 350 degrees. Line an 8x8" glass baking dish with tin foil, with some hanging over. Fold the hanging over to the sides on the outside. Do this 2 times so that two rectangles of tin foil are crossing within the glass baking dish. What this does is make it very easy to lift the brownies out of the dish as you just grab the ends of the tin foil. Spray with cooking spray.

Temper G in a glass bowl by iteself over simmering water (make body temperature), set aside.

Chop then melt A in glass bowl over simmering water. Remove from water before it all melts, the little unmelted chocolate will all melt on it's own.

Sift C + D together, then add F to the bowl.

Melt B in a glass/metal bowl over simmering water. Remove from heat and add E, and mix. Then back on simmering water, and just wait until it almost bubbles, and is shiny, a few minutes. This will add the crust on top when the brownies bake.

Remove from heat and add A, and stir to incorporate with a whisk. Then add G and stir to incorporate with a whisk. Then add F+D+C, and stir with a whisk/spatula/wooden spoon to incorporate.

Pour into prepared pan, bake 20 minutes. After 10 minutes turn around for even baking. Remove from oven when toothpick or cake tester comes out clean. Let cool away from oven. When cool remove from pan by grabbing two ends of the tin foil. Place on a rack. Put a cutting board or another rack on top. Turn over and remove the tin foil. Remove back to rightside up. Cut in squares or rectangles.

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town. It's a cupcake with raspberries, very sweet. I used cake flour so it was quite light. The frosting, if I didn't screw it up, was suppose to be pink with raspberries also. I was listening to the Antwerp bootleg as that song came on while the cupcakes were baking. Very small town USA treat, you know.

Anyone have a good recipe for an italian meringue buttercream? I just screwed up on the meringue part, luckily, so I didn't waste the butter. I think I just had too small a batch, and it got too hard. So, I eat the cupcakes without the frosting this time. Better than a muffin, that's for sure, nice texture.