Keeping it interesting - Triple Choc Brownies

Second blog post - pressure!

How to keep it interesting, make you want to read the post and it be worthwhile.

Do I write about the latest piece of advice I heard for babies that don't sleep through the night?

Do I write about myself, a little 'get to know you' post?

Do I write about my recent events of a bad day where everything seemed to go wrong including getting to the grocery store 'baby-free' at 8am and smelling the coffee beans brewing at the nearby cafe, only to tell me they weren't opening for another half an hour? Yep that was yesterday. (I contemplated waiting by myself for that half an hour, then I realised I looked kind of creepy).

Snoozing yet?

I know! Three words...

Triple. Choc. Brownies.

How can I go wrong?

Now that I have your attention, you may want to scroll down and take note of this recipe as it is the best  brownie recipe you will EVER eat.

I wish I could say it's my own. I even wish I could say I stumbled across this by myself. All would be false.

This is a Women's Weekly recipe my sister cooked for me once, and now I have never gone back. And everyone else I have made it for feel the same (you know who you are). I'd like to say I think I make it better than her, but her husband has her back.

Get your pens ready, or even screen shot this on your phones, because at the next office morning tea, birthday or even romantic dinner - you will be sure to be everyone's favourite human. Big call, but trust me.

Women's Weekly Triple Choc Brownies

(adjusted just a little by me after years of eating it)

Ingredients:
125g Butter, melted
200g dark eating chocolate, melted (Cadbury Old Dark Chocolate)

200g white eating chocolate (Cadbury Dream)

200g milk eating chocolate (Dairy Milk)1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar
1 1/4 cups (185g) plain flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten


Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees (160 fan forced).
Lightly grease and line with baking paper 19cm square baking pan.

2. Roughly chop white and milk chocolate into chunks - not too small (the chunkier the better)

3. Combine flour, butter, caster sugar, eggs and chopped white and milk chocolate in a bowl.

4. Add melted dark chocolate and combine all ingredients well.
Spread into lined baking pan.

5. Bake for about 30-35 minutes until mixture is firm to touch.

Oh, and you better serve it with a scoop of Maggie Beers Burnt Fig, Honeycomb and Caramel Icecream...do yourself a favour.

You're welcome.

Images: All photos taken by me

Another 'new mum' blog?...

I hear you.

What's different about this mummy blog as opposed to every other bazillionth blog about being a parent out there?

Well, to be honest...I don't know.

All I do know is I promise to make this not just about being a mum (although it's probably going to be a big part as I am new at this) but it will be more than just that.

I've been wanting to create my own blog for a long time, about two years to be precise. Where to start, what to blog about, who cares blah blah blah. Will it be creative, funny, interesting, intriguing or just plain lame? Well, that's for you to judge, and by all means - please judge (just be kind).

Word to Your Mama - why the name?

Well you see, I'm in the Community Services field of work and have a strong interest in creating new programs, ideas and information for the greater good. BORING! Again, I hear you.
But 'Word to Your Mama' is for all those new mums and dads, old mums and dads, husbands, wives, partners, sisters, brothers, mother-in-laws, grandparents, friends and well...everyone who cares to read this about the realistic view of being a new parent and more. Word.

Hey, it might even contain some good food recipes for those who aren't anywhere near parenthood! So don't be too scared off just yet...I'm obsessed with fatty foods! Sorry, no Paleo diet here.

Over the course of a good year now since becoming pregnant I have been given ALL of the advice and opinions under the sun from every super experienced parent or 'childless parent' as I like to call them. It's comedic, cringeworthy, depressing, informative and somewhat scary!

I am not an expert, far from it! I'm very much an amateur mum fumbling through parenthood like the rest of us. What works for me, may not work for you. What I believe, is probably not what you believe. But if anything, this is real and that's all it is.

I've also had ample time off to browse the internet, visit the shops, watch insane amounts of reality TV and peruse Facebook and Instagram like it's going out of fashion. So, not an expert - but up to date I guess you could say.

It won't be flooded with images of my child/ren or husband as this is my voice, not theirs. Although they are the biggest part of who I am.

Whatever this blog turns out to be, I hope it relates to some of you in some small way.

I promise to keep it interesting if anything.

Oh and just a little disclaimer - I am terrible at grammar...you can judge everything else, but please don't judge that ;-)

Here goes...