Tuesdays with Dorie #1 (for me): French Chocolate Brownies

I've joined new blog project, Tuesdays With Dorie. I'm too tired to expound about it tonight, but the basic premise is a blogging community where the members make one recipe a week from Dorie Greenspan's book Baking: From My Home to Yours. It's always nice to have a little direction, a little push to try something I might never have bothered to make, and to really familiarize myself with a cookbook writer's work.

Case in point: French Chocolate Brownies. These are a personal creation of Dorie's, a very buttery brownie with rum soaked raisins in. Despite Matt's opinion that those were a bit of a sneaky and unwelcome surprise, the overall effect was good. Rich and good, and well, brownies. I don't usually make brownies. They're not my favorite thing to eat, and I like the Ghirardelli mix brownies better than any of the richer ones. They're chewy and cakey with a hint of richness, and I've never seen any reason to do better. But if this sort of brownies are what you're into, these are an excellent specimen. I have many more thoughts about cookbooks and Dorie's in particular, but I guess I'll have plenty of time to go into it, every Tuesday till the book's done gone through.