Just Baking

So, I’ve got a new food crush. See, the other day Steph came home from the library with a copy of Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking and it was love at first read. See, I’m about as anti Rachael Ray as you can get…I’m not about cheap makin’ burgers to replace real steaks or other needless short cut cooking. Here’s where my new girl Nigella comes into play…she’s got some GREAT recipes, but they really aren’t fussy at all. Unlike many celeb cookbooks…this has some very interesting, fun recipes but it isn’t about making cheap, short cutty food. I know there are some fans of RR out there who probably don’t like me saying these things (but this Adam Sandler speech is how I feel watching RR..especially the guy at the end). All I know is that I love learning new things and I think that Nigella and I are gonna be friends..and I even have the blessing of my wife

I’m well into my 3rd year of my MBA and I’ve been really burned out with projects, lectures, group projects…yadda yadda.  Anyhoo…I had to take a break on Saturday…so I hit the gym.  While I was out…Steph made Nigella’s chocolate bread.  I came home to an incredible smelling home and a very supportive wife.  Once the bread came out of the oven however…this is what it looked like:

Molten goodness, eh??  Looked like something from Hawaii! lol  The taste was fab so I wasn’t complaining.  On Sunday, however, Steph was determined to give it a whirl again as she got her ingredients together.

Pretty standard stuff…everything that you can find around your house.  This time around, Steph felt like she would not fill up the bread pan as much.  Lining the loaf pan with parchment paper made taking the cake out later on a snap as Steph poured in the yummy batter.

Of course, being the quality control/photographer…I had to lick the spatula   Steph poured some of the remaining batter into two of our Kiwi Le Creuset Ramekins. Cute eh?  This time…the chocolate bread didn’t over flow and the little ramekins were like little pots of chocolate goodness!