Thursday, June 24, 2004


my coffee novel or beyond brownies

one of the many things i adore about the new blogger is the statistics. thus i learn that in the couple of years i've been with evhead's code, bccy as a whole contains some 291,743 words.

since the average novel runs only about 80,000 words, i'm sitting here realizing that i have basically dropped a 3-1/2 volume book of coffee talk upon the planet. i mean, forget the anatomy of melancholy; i'm headed straight towards remembrance of things past!

like many other people i know, i'm constantly begging don schoenholt of gillies to write the ultimate coffee book, since there's possibly no other human being on the planet with his in-depth and encyclopedic knowledge of coffee, its history, its people, its techniques.

but in fact maybe i should be thinking of my own coffee work. . . nah. who has the time? it would seriously take away from my baking.

and speaking of baking, last night i was determined to make good after the recent all-splenda brownie disaster. thus i was set to create not just the killer brownie, but something beyond the brownie.

and i think i may have succeeded. . .it begins with this simple recipe, tweaked.

what are the crucial changes?

  • replace half the 1-1/2 cups white sugar with brown
  • replace the 1 cup callebaut callets with 10 oz. by weight valrhona chocolate batons broken into chunks
  • omit nuts
  • replace the 1 tablespoon water with espresso and 2 teaspoons almond flavoring with very finely ground fresh espresso coffee or for those without grinders, instant espresso powder
  • replace 1 teaspoon vanilla with 1 tablespoon vanilla paste

the results were deemed "death-by-brownie" but i need a name more original than this. . .

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