Back to work this week (eleven new recipes). It’s been a stressful time.
Did so many stupid things in one day I surprised even myself
- Realised that I’d published my blog on the wrong address. ‘Coach potato baker’ will be my next blog about training potato bakes into fine athletes.
- Was freezing in the office so went home to get a jacket, but forgot to take my keys and couldn’t get in so had to stay freezing all day.
- Emailed Sian to tell her of stupidity and wrote ‘Oh know, how stupid’ in my email. New gramma low.
Made myself feel better by cooking Ann’s Banana Cake by Linda. I couldn’t be bothered cooking dinner so went for a treat instead. Not sure what I’ll do with it as we don’t really eat cake, but I’m pretty sure if I take it to work Sim will eat it.
I quite enjoyed cooking a dessert. There was lots of fun stuff to do! People who don’t eat eggs rarely get to play with them, so that was lots of fun. It took all my willpower to not squeeze it to crack it in my fist… by I resisted! I got to use my scales on the ‘ounce’ setting to measure out four ounces of butter, and now learnt how to spell ‘ounce’.
Sieving the flour was my favourite thing of all time and I got to practice a new stirring technique – folding. Was basically the same as all my other stirring techniques. Seemed to go well and I enjoyed doing it (while pretending the dishwasher wasn’t in fact flooding around my feet).
May be a brilliant chef, but definitely not a clean one!
Cake tipped out of the pan brilliantly and tastes really good. I think the edges are a bit tough, but the middle is delicious. Simone said it’s “wreally good” with a mouthful of cake, so that’s a good sign!
Going to Bali next week, so speeding it up a bit to make sure I still get enough done.
First showcase this weekend – Ash might be a tough judge so I’ll have to nail it!
Tips: I only cooked it for 43 minutes (don't know why, just thought it seemed like a good amount of time... worked a treat).
Music: Blues Traveler.
Oh cool! I'm internet famous now and I'm eating cake! Right now!! (er, yes, i chose not to share the massve container of cake with others).
ReplyDeleteGo Jo! (I also really like Lemon merangue pie, and i think the skills you would learn could benefit you too! Hint, hint)
this is one of my favourite recipes!! Has made me famous throughout geneva...well that's a slight exaggeration but I do have some "secret ingredient" additions that you can use...next time gadget!! Wish I could taste it, it looks DELICIOUS!!
ReplyDeleteCool, I look forward to the variations. Linda gave me some things to try varying so I'll have to do that again soon.
ReplyDeleteSim I'll definitely be bringing you more desserts. I liked how you decided to ignore my suggestion of sharing the cake!