Chocolate Brownies for which you will sell your grandmother

Get mits on:
- Large bar of dark chocolate, i.e. 250g
- 2 eggs
- 4 tbsp self-raising wholemeal flour
- a fistful of mixed nuts (I the same quantity of nuts as chocolate, courtesy of an interesting ‘weights? who needs weights?’ experiment with my scales; thus, about 250g of pecans, walnuts, almonds and so forth), chopped and roasted in the oven for about ten minutes; you can also toast them in an oilless frying pan
- 4 oz dark brown sugar
- large pinch of cinnamon
- large pinch of chili
- large pinch of ground nutmeg

Then…
Melt the choc in the microwave, together with the butter. Stir the lot up into a surprisingly attractive pot of goo, and then sling in the other ingredients, leaving the eggs till last in case the chocolate is a bit warm (beware the overenthusiastic application of microwave technology, which can lead to odd things happening in the middle of chocolate, or so I am told by one of my stepsisters (!)). Turn the lot into a square tin about eight inches across, and stick in a preheated oven at about 180°c, for about twenty minutes to half an hour – basically, it’s done when a knife comes out clean. Retire. Scoff, possibly warm with ice cream. I can thoroughly recommend vanilla.