Chocolate Brownies with Almonds..Yummm!!!!!

Mummmm.....Brownies...I think a good part my adult life has been spent being a chocolate addict..I can eat almost anything that has chocolate in them. Whenever and wherever I have a craving for eating or buying something to eat I usually end up buying chocolate. Chocolate brownies are a big part of this spiritual saga. As I have been splurging good part of my money on brownies, I thought of trying to make some of my own. So guys lets get going .......

Ingredients:

1. 12 oz. Hershey's semisweet chocolate.
   
2. 1 stick butter (unsalted).
3. 2 eggs.
   
4. pinch of salt.
5. 1 cup of all purpose flour.
6. about half cup of chopped almonds.
7. 1 tea spoon of vanilla extract.
   
8. 1 1/3 cup of sugar.
9. 2-3 toothpicks.
10. one 8x8 cake pan.
11. 2 medium sized bowl for mixing ingredients.

Method:

1. Start the oven to heat to about 350 degrees F.
   
2. Fill some water in a medium sized vessel.
3. heat this water almost to boil.
4. take it off the fire.
5. put the stick of butter( leave some small portion to butter the pan) and about 6 oz of chocolate pieces in a small china bowl.
6. place this bowl in the bath of water. (Make sure the water is low enough and would not get mixed with the butter and chocolate. keep stirring the contents in the bowl occasionally & till the whole chocolate and butter mixture melts down.
7. Now add all the sugar to the chocolate and butter mixture but keep mixing the sugar...to form a uniform smooth liquid.
   
8. add vanilla extract to this mix.
9. now add eggs one by one into this chocolate butter mix...but beat the eggs into this mixture before adding the next one.
   
10. in another bowl sieve 1 cup of all purpose flour and the pinch of salt.
11. now add this flour to the chocolate and butter mix slowly and keep folding the flour to mix it in with the chocolate and butter evenly.
12. Grease the 8x8 cake pan with the left over butter evenly.
13. pour the whole batter into it and place it in the preheated 350 degree oven ...medium rack for about 25 min.
14. add the remaining chocolate pieces and chopped almonds into the mixture and mix well.
    
15. After 25 min check the brownies by inserting the toothpick in the middle to see if the brownies are almost done* ...
16. take the pan out and let it cool for about 1 hour .
17. take out the brownie and cut it into pieces to eat.
    

(*) - if u see chocolate liquid on ur toothpick-NOT DONE
- if u see moist lumps of chocolate on ur toothpick-ALMOST DONE
- if u see a clean tooth pick -OVER DONE

NOTE: Keep the brownies outside the refrigerator to keep them soft and moist.
Variation: add walnuts or pecans or pistachios....