How to make the best chocolate chip cookies

Do you find that your cookies always come out burnt or dry or just generally not
cookie shaped? Well those days are past! Here's a quick (and delicious) recipe for
perfect cookie shaped, cookies!

Ingredients:

150 grams of unsalted butter

225 grams of brown sugar

300 grams of flour

2 small eggs

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

1/2 a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

1 large bar of chocolate


How to make these things into cookies:

Before you start: Make sure to wash your hands thoroughly.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius and line two baking trays.

Step 1: Put the butter and sugar in a large bowl and  beat together.
You may find it easier to melt the butter for a couple of seconds in the microwave
before adding the sugar.

Step 2: Add the vanilla extract and eggs and beat until light.  
Make sure the eggs are small because you don't want your mix to be to runny.

Step 3: Sieve the flour and bicarb into the bowl and stir until the mix stiffens up.

Step 4: Using two teaspoons make small balls of mix and put them on the baking trays
remembering to keep large gaps between each ball.

Step 5: Remember that large bar of chocolate? Were going to put that chocolate in a food
bag ( Take off the wrapper first! ) and take a rolling pin to it. Smash it up into small chunks
then distribute those chunks between the balls of cookie placing 4 or 5 on each one.

Step 6: Bake for 15 to 20 minutes keeping a watchful eye on them through the oven door.
Take them out when they are golden brown and still slightly squidgy because they will harden
up when cooling.

Step 7: Put the kettle on and eat when still hot!

Remember not to eat more than 3 in one sitting due to large amounts of sugar!

A super quick guide to the Parthenon and Athena Parthenos

Probably one of the most well known pieces of ancient Greek art, the Parthenon is made 

completely of Pentelic marble ( A pure white marble quarried on Mt. Pentelicus near Athens )

 apart from its wooden roof. The whole thing took 15 years to complete but was finally

 finished in 438 BC. What is left of the Parthenon stands proudly on the highest part of

 the Acropolis ( A ciadetel -fortress - protecting many previous temples to Athena and Nike ) 

with a main purpose of sheltering the Athena Parthenos. The Athena Parthenos is a 9m tall 

sculpture of Athena ( Ancient Greek goddess of war and wisdom ). In her right hand she holds

 a statue of Nike ( Ancient Greek god of Victory ) and in her left a gold spear. At her feet lies 

a shield coiled with a serpent. She was made by Phidias  ( A Greek sculptor and architect who

 lived in 5th century BC, Phidias "statue of Zeus in Olympus"is one of the seven wonders of 

the ancient world ) using a method called Chryselephantine ( Chryselephantine statues are 

built round a wooden frame then layered with thin slabs of ivory, then details are added with

gold leaf - 91% pure gold hammered into sheets - ). 

 The Parthenon was used for many different purpose over the course of time and in early 1460 - just after the Ottoman conquest - it was turned into a mosque. The Parthenon was destroyed in 1687 when an Ottoman ammunition dump inside it was lighted by Venetian bombardment  

So next time you happen to be Greece ward way .........