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Thanks, Nancy for that good news.

BTW , didn't there used to be a 'reply to post' button? I can't see it so had to retype the heading. Please point it out if I have gone blind as well as everything else!!

Maggie, here is the link to the recipie I have made which is a bit different from the one I sent you yesterday.

http://www.cuisine.com.au/recipe/Chocolate-and-almond-cake

The other one would be a creaming the Butter and sugar

Have fun

They're rich as and my liver can't hack it anymore...I'm into flourless orange cake or lemon pie....also with almonds instead of a pie crust

Fiona :-)

 HI, I grabbed this off the net as it is almost the same as the recipe I use which is in a book downstairs. any good quality dark chocolate will do. VERY RICH!

 This dense cake uses ground almonds instead of flour.

Toasting the almonds before grinding them helps bring out the flavor.

Ingredients

• 6 ounces Scharffen Berger 70% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate
• ¼ cup espresso or double strength coffee
• 10 tablespoons butter
• ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 6 large eggs, separated
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups almonds, toasted and finely ground

Method

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease and flour a 9-inch springform pan. Line the bottom with parchment.

In the top of a double boiler or in a bowl placed over a pan of simmering water, melt the chocolate and coffee.

With an electric mixer and a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until ivory colored. Add the egg yolks, two at a time. Continue to beat until the mixture is light and airy. Fold in the cooled melted chocolate.

In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites with the salt until they form stiff peaks. With the beater running, add two tablespoons sugar and beat until glossy. Fold the ground almonds into the whites. Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg white mixture.

Pour into the prepared pan. Place in the oven and immediately turn the heat down to 350 degrees F. Bake 15 minutes. Turn the oven down to 325 degrees F. Bake an additional 45 minutes. Turn the oven down to 300 degrees and bake 15 to 20 minutes. Turn the oven off and leave in the oven, with the door ajar, for another 30 minutes.

Cool on a rack. Remove the sides of the pan. Serve sprinkled with confectioners’ sugar. Whipped cream is optional.

Maggie, I have some fab recipes for mud cake..will look them out!  Talking Yummy ...over at the medical authors' blog we have some yummy doctors scrolling across the screen. But I'm looking for more to add. So far I have Patrick and George and Goran and McSteamy and those blue eyes of House but I need more. Which other TV or Movie doctors make your knees buckle?

Oh, I recall William Hurt in a movie about a doctor....must go trawl the dark recesses of my mind.

Will be back with recipes too, Maggie!

Fiona:-)

Whew, I finally found you all. I kept getting told I wasn't authorised to visit!  Lovely new sparkly room, gorgeous!  I am filling it with some of our glorious spring sunshine...have been in the garden all weekend:-) 

Maggie suggested writing to Karen Stoeker in the UK but please may I suggest you write to Randall Toye and Dianne Moggy at Harlequin Mills and Boon,  225 Duncan Mill Road, Don Mills, Ontario Canada M3B 3K9 because Randall Toye is editorial director and both of them spoke this year at the RWA conference about Medicals and pushing to get them on shelf. So THEY are the people to write to as the decision rests with them.

I had someone write to me today from Canada wanting to get hold of The Playboy Doctor's Marriage Proposal as she'd read Wedding in Warragurra. She got it from Amazon Ca in the end but she wrote to Harlequin Enterprises as she said, "

OK the boys are yelling so I better go.Happy reading

Fiona hoping to return as long as the site lets me!!

Hi, It's raining! Blissful, glorious rain on a friday afternoon, last day of the school hols and the kids and I are kicking back :-) Maggie I loved Enchanted.  I just watched 'Just like Heaven'...an older film with Reese Witherspoon but it was lovely and then we all fell about laughing watching Wild HOgs.  Surely this december we will get lovely romance? Something like Love Actually or The HOlilday...adore both those films.

Rae are we moving? Will I be able to find us and HOW HOW HOW do I get the last comment I was at to come up rather than having to click through swathes of posts?

It's great reading weather and I think I might just go and do some.

Big wave to all

Fiona

I have very fond memories of spending time at the Edinburgh comedy festival and going to a fabulous concert at the foot of the castle. At the end of the night to the sounds of the orchestra fireworks cascaded down the ancient walls in a blaze of white light.  Just gorgeous.

 I have to go back because I went up to Inverness inland and missed the coast. I have two fave scottish films...Gregory's Girl and Local Hero...true whimsy and totally brilliant.

Fiona

HI, Everyone,

 It was a HUGE August as I was on the Australian RWA conference committee which soaked up all my internet time and a lot more. Now I have a deadline but I just wanted to pop in to say the second book in the Warragurra Series is out. I am not sure it is coming to the US :-( which is sad as the first book was released here, BUT and this is the good news...if you want a chanace at winning a copy of The Playboy Doctor's Marriage Proposal head over to the Medical Romance Blog and leave a message.  I'd love one of you great women to win it!

Ok back to the deadline cave. Happy Reading and thanks for buying the meds on the shelf when you see them. Publishing is a numbers game and the only chance we have is if the books fly off the shelf during trials

Love Fiona x

Congrats on number 7, Lynne, that is fantastic.

Enjoy the SF conference. I'm back from Borneo and knee deep in Australian conference preparation.Big wave to everyone.

 Fiona

HI, Everyone,

Ellen and Nancy, so glad you enjoyed  A Wedding in Warragurra. I ended up wanting to live there by the time I finished the two books:-)  Nancy, I agree about Matt not being strong enough and based on your words ringing in my ears I changed his name. I couldn't quite come at Greg but I now have Nick. I am happy with Nick. This is my hero's FOURTH name and a name just does need to be right. I have never had so much trouble with a name but then again, I don't think I have had this much trouble with a book either!

It is a long weekend my way so I might grab a bit of R*R and do some reading for pleasure,