I love to make Nigella Lawson's recipes. I think she is just brilliant all round. I like her recipes and her personal style and although I am generally adverse to the culture of the celebrity I have to say Nigella has my interest. Also Charles Saatchi's involvement with 'Brit art' and the emerging culture of art as commodity was the subject of my Fine Art BA dissertation. Nigella's christmas tv series made me feel really festive when nothing else did, all I could think about at that time was the dissertation. This series is to blame for me covering the living room with white fairy lights and the accompanying book 'Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities' is on my amazon wish list.
Flourless Chocolate Brownies (From the book Nigella Express)
3 Eggs, beaten
225g butter
150g ground almonds
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
100g chopped walnuts
200g caster sugar
1 Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3. Melt the chocolate and butter gently over a low heat in a heavy-based saucepan. 2 Take the pan off the heat, mix in the vanilla and sugar, and let it cool a little. 3 Beat the eggs into the pan along with the ground almonds and chopped walnuts. Turn into a 24cm square baking tin or, most sensibly, use a foil one. 4 Bake in the oven for 25–30 minutes, by which time the top will have set but the mixture will still be gooey. Once cooler, cut carefully, four down, four across, into 16 squidgy bellied squares.
Makes 16 squares
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