Sweet tooth!

You know what the best part of my day is so far? The whole day because it’s  FRIDAY baby! When I woke up this morning that’s the first thought that popped into my head. I stretched out with a smile and turned around…and promptly fell alsleep again until J had to yell at me to get out of bed ten minutes later. Can’t a girl do a proper ’snooze the alarm routine’ without being yelled at? Apparently not.

We’re going to see 10 000 BC tonight which is apparently the best thing since sliced bread, and also have some dinner at Adega, a Portugese restaurant and I’m really looking forward to both. J, Marc, Patty and her bf (I haven’t got a name for him yet - we’ll see how long he lasts before going into the cast page) are going with.

Then I have some gossip on The Family and Co. The mom, otherwise know and The Boss and The Dad, also known as the big scary man that rescues me from little boys, are in the midst of a fight. The mom is angry at the dad because the dad is angry at her for reasons unkown to the rest of us and even the mom. Did I lose you there?

The result is, her calling me up at 7:30 in the evening just as I’m getting ready to sit down to a lovely braai dinner with J, complete with Potato Bake and peas. I had to go in to the office and help her raise some invoices because she didn’t want to ask my dad and I also had to take her home because she doesn’t drive (long story - public transport here is also messed up. Surefire way to get killed and/or mugged is to get on a train) and she didn’t want to ask him to pick her up. So after J freaked out, I got in my car and went to work.

I got home at about 8:30 so it was only an hour but still. It sucked. Because I’m busy with a craft project for someone and I couldn’t finish it and my dinner got cold. Reheated food just isn’t as good.

And yesterday I found out one of the girls in the office has resigned and I have to do her work. Monday is going to be a busy day as I have to go through all her files and see where everything is and then make a system that works for me. I told J that I didn’t really have a choice but the experience will be good for me and it’s not very different than what I’m already doing. Her contracts are South African ones and I’m currently working on international ones and trust me, dealing with international clients is way easier than South African ones. Anyway, I’m sure it’ll go well.

I think I’ll leave you with a recipe. (this blog is in danger of becoming a food blog…noooo!) I got it from my sister and I haven’t tried it yet, hopefully this weekend. We’ll see.

Chocolate Brownies

Ingredients :
250ml (1 cup) self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
60ml (¼ cup) cocoa powder
125ml (½ cup) brick margarine
125ml (½ cup) Illovo SunSweet Brown Sugar
2 eggs

Icing:
60ml (¼ cup) cocoa powder
45ml (3 Tablespoons) margarine
45ml (3 Tablespoons) milk
250ml (1 cup) Illovo Icing Sugar

Method:
Sift the flour, salt and cocoa powder together. Cream the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Fold the sifted dry ingredients into the creamed mixture. Turn into a greased 22cm square tin. Bake at 180ºC for 30 - 40 minutes or until the centre of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. Allow to cool in the tin.

Icing:
Sift the cocoa powder. Melt the margarine and add the cocoa. Cook over low heat for 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Add milk and sifted icing sugar. Mix thoroughly and spread over cake in the tin. Leave to set and cut into squares.

Have a happy weekend everyone.

UPDATE: Blogger hates me today. I can’t leave any comments and I have no idea why! Grrrr!

~ by sleepyjane on March 28, 2008.