The Perfect Brownie Pan – Giganto deliciousness
Kinda silly right? Especially if you saw how many times it showed on TV in all its variations, and how expensive these perfect brownie pans started off.
But also? Ah-mazing. Yeah, I bought one. Not for myself, of course….I couldn’t justify that. But I bought it for someone else and hand-delivered it when I knew it’d be convenient to make brownies. Win-win situation, right?
Better yet, boxed brownies were bought, so very little effort was put out.
And oh yeah, one box didn’t seem like enough….so we might’ve put in more than that.
Yeah, they might’ve gone a bit over the top, but oh my god…..brownies!
As if they could get any better, I got a late night craving to mix it up a bit and ran with it.
As an American, Cadbury mini-eggs were a new one for me. They’re kinda similar to robin eggs, but then….not at all. Both are little candy coated egg-shaped bites of yumminess, but robin eggs are filled with whoppers….Cadbury mini-eggs are solid chocolate with the same sort of candy coating.
Anyone who knows me, also knows that I’m not joking when I say I want “chocolate with chocolate with more chocolate with some chocolate syrup and chocolate chips and then some more chocolate.” It’s not overload for me; it’s heaven.
So this should come as no surprise:
Mmmm, perfection. Soft, ooey gooey, extra chocolatey brownie with creamy, slightly salty, slightly sweet peanut butter….topped with crunchy chocolate coated chocolate mini-eggs. Heck yeah!
And plus, it looks like a face (egg eyes, bird-like peanut butter drip beak, and peanut better ears, hehe). All the better. <3 Maybe next time I should crush up some mini eggs and add straight to the brownie batter.
Glico curry mix – Curry should not smell like ramen and look like fake meat ice cubes
Being from a place where curry isn’t a daily dish or even a yearly dish, having prepackaged curry sauces was rather foreign for me.
I thought when I opened it, there would be an overwhelming smell of curry spice. After all, it’s curry, right?
(Yes, the fork fell all the way in, oops)
Instead, it smelled like cheap chicken ramen noodle seasoning packets. *gasp!* I was not expecting that.
(I really need to remember not to take pictures under the stove overhead light.)
Nor was I expecting to watch it broken into blocks that waivered back and forth between looking like fake meat and funky colored ice cubes. Weird.
Fortunately, a half hour later, it was completely transformed, both in appearance and taste/texture.
See that? Absolutely delicious. Full of rich, spicy, curry flavor, and not even a faint whiff of ramen noodle smell. The best part was that there was no need to adjust the seasoning or deal with finicky thickeners to pull it together. If you have access to Glico curry mix, give it a go!
“Food is too salty” – Watch your mouth or get jailed
Easy there with your adjectives, food bloggers. If you dare to call a restaurant’s offerings "too salty" in Taiwan (….), you could wind up behind bars, the Daily What notes.
A woman with an amateur food blog of moderate success (the Taipei Times reports she has received more than 60,000 hits) was sentenced to 30 days in jail, given two years probation and fined the equivalent of $6,782 CDN.
I know, I know, different countries have different laws and expectations. People are jailed for all sorts of things we’d consider “silly.”
Here’s the kicker, though. The rest of her review said things about the restaurant having roaches and such, but the judge had no issue with that. Apparently it’s okay to make claims about a place being unsanitary (even though it was later inspected and found at that point to be clean) and even to call the owner a bully (for letting customers park their cars haphazardly, leading to traffic jams).
To call the food “too salty,” though, was considered defamation because the woman had only tasted one dish and therefore, shouldn’t speak about the restaurant’s dishes as a whole. The fine was to pay the owner for lost business. Oops.
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