Have a horrendous morning filled with car clamps and 2 hour social development lectures??
About ready to die when you get home and literally starving into your knees???
Want a satisfying lunch to ease the grievances?
Find that dusty Titus Andronicus album in the corner of your kitchen and put it into that fucking CD player, because it does exactly what it says on the packet- the "Airing of Grievances"
" i'm a hardcore smoothie lover and like my smoothies to have the perfect consistency; smooth, no coagulation between fruit and dairy, light, tasty, with just the right combo of ingredients. Couple that with ricotta and pine nut raviolli and you have a perfect lunch. But its difficult to get a lunch looking and tasting this perfect (well for me anyway) and its even worse when you're running on 2 1/2 hours sleep"
BUT NOT ANYMORE BECAUSE TITUS ANDRONICUS CAN ACTUALLY SOLVE THIS:
I'm telling you, just once, try making anything in the whole wide world listening to that album and it will come out beautifully. I like the album, not love, more like. But those guys are culinary transformers. I am going to write to them and thank them.
Or maybe i just had a lucky day in the kitchen?....naaaahhhhhhh.
Try it out at home by making Nigella's dark chocolate raspberry pudding cake (it's delicious, even if Nigella is um, the opposite)
185g self-raising flour
25g cocoa powder
250g unsalted butter
2 tbsp creme de framboise (optional)
100g caster sugar
100g light muscovado sugar
250g good quality dark chocolate
185ml strong black coffee
and 370ml water
2 large eggs, beaten lightly
250g raspberries
icing sugar, for dusting
1. Preheat goddam oven to 180C, fan 160 gas mark 4
2. sift flour & cocoa, set aside.
3. put butter, creme de framboise, sugars, chocolate, coffee and water in a thick bottomed saucepan and stir over a low heat until everythign melts and it looks smooth and glossy.
4. stir this mixture into sifted flour and cocoa. beat well until all smooth, then beat in the eggs. (dont worry if its runny, it will set, DONT ADD MORE FLOUR)
5. pour into cake tin (i used a heart shaped one :) ) until 2cm thick, then pour on raspberries, and put rest of mixture on top.
6. bake in oven for 40-45 minutes.
7. grunge is what the cake is alllll about, so dont bother making skewer come out super clean.
8. leave to cool for 15 mins and dust with icing sugar, cut into a broken heart if you wish, because broken hearts are more interesting than complete ones...
and it should hopefully come out like this.........
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