9: Chocolate Pistachio Fudge (Page 338, Nigella Express)

Fudge it turns out, is not as hard to make as I thought. However when making any desserts with nuts, it's probably best not to buy salted nuts. I bought the salted pistachios because the Woolworths near where I live is quite small and they only had salted nuts. So my fudge is probably a little saltier than it's supposed to be.

I made quesadillas for dinner again, with 'ham and cheese' and 'beans and avocado'. It was very filling, but I still had room for this tiny piece of dessert and a cup of tea. Apart from the saltiness of the pistachios, this was really good fudge. It was dry to touch, but melts in your mouth. At least this is how I think fudge is supposed to taste. I used Lindt 70% cocoa dark chocolate which is my favourite chocolate at the moment. It is so rich I can only eat one piece at a time (as opposed to milk chocolate where I can eat a whole bar in one sitting).

The recipe says that it makes 64 pieces, which really scared me. So I divided the ingredients by 5. It happened by chance that I had 70g of chocolate in the fridge, which is how I came to dividing the recipe by 5. Problem is, I now have a lot of condensed milk left over. I ended up cutting my block of fudge into 8 pieces. And it will probably still last me the whole week.