Marie Cookpad

  There is something about chocolate baked goods that makes them very difficult to photograph.  I have never been able to crack the secret to being able to do this successfully, but then again I am not the best at photographing anything anyways!   I think I am far too impatient. I could probably spend hours setting up shots and things, planning them, etc.  But me . . .  impatient.  I just want to photograph them so that we can eat them.    I have a very narrow window of opportunity when the daylight is in my favour and it differs  all year round, changing with the seasons. I am usually just getting it sorted and then it changes and I have to fiddle with it all over again.   I have never really promised my readers the best food photographs anyways, I don't know why I stress over them as much as I do.  I have only ever promised you great recipes that work and that are delicious.   I think I deliver on that most of the time. Anyth...

  Raise your hand if you are a big fan of brownies!  I thought so  . . .  me too!  I simply adore brownies of any kind.  I make really good brownies.  When I worked at the manor the Mr liked for me to bake him a pan of brownies at least once every couple of weeks.  I am sure that missed my brownies when I finished working there.    My brownie recipe produces dense, fudgy brownies, depending on how long you cook them for. You can cook them a bit longer if you want cakey brownies, but  . . .  come on  . . .  fudge . . .     I remember attending a cooking show when I lived down South.  The Celebrity Chefs on it were the Tanner Brothers and Paul Rankin, with guest star Vanessa Phelps.  They did a  Brownie Challenge and what they made were not Brownies in my opinion  . . . .      They were wet and gloopy.  You should be able to hold a good brownie in your hands to...