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[labellementeuse]

Reccomended breakfast: ghetto trifle. Like ordinary trifle, except with tinned peaches and small sloshings of jam but no sherry or delicious berries. Also, not chilled, because only freakish people wait for custard to get cold before they eat it with cake and fruit.

Have had a really fabulous baking week, by the way. Yesterday I made FABULOUS lemon meringue pie that, OK, the base was kind of crumbly? But the filling and the meringue were PICTURE PERFECT and tasted amaaaaazing. IMO, anyway. And I got to use it to bribe Tas into cleaning my *room* for me - totally unintentionally! She just whizzed around while I was cooking and then my room was perfect! And on tuesday I made chocolate zucchini cake that I wasn't too impressed with (I think I maybe baked it a little too long? Anyway, not impressed with the recipe - sometime I might try it with butter instead of oil, actually, and see how that goes) and then TODAY I turned it into trifle! Which was yummy and awesome.

It's been particularly special for me because it marks several perfect custards - the lemon custard for the pie and the custard for the trifle (OK, the lemon custard actually isn't true custard because it has no milk and you add the egg yolks after the mixture's thickened already, but the principle is the same: thickening a thin sauce that does not wanna be thick.) If you've never made custard you won't know that making custard is essentially a pitched battle - on the one side, custard and heat; on the other side, your wooden spoon. The custard desperately wants to cook as lumpily and burnily as possible, and you have only your trusty spoon to try to stop it! Also, it takes forever, and historically I have not been great at this kind of endeavour, but - no longer! I finally have the precise figure-eight stirring technique down pat! it's beautiful! It might have something to do with the fact that both of these custards have cornflour in them, but I'll just pretend not! (Someday - someday soon - I will make Real Custard, with only eggs and egg yolks and milk and sugar. Not today, though, because I already used about a zillion eggs in the last few days.)

I'm in the middle of a three-week break in which ALL of my assessment for every class I take was due the week before the holiday started, so I have basically nothing to do but catch up on my reading, watch television, and bake. (Haha, sixth_light, you may be overseas but you're missing out on stupendous baking!) This is more or less bliss.

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[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I HATE the mixed berries that end up in Trifles. They stick and they crunch and they taste too bitterly sweet and it ruins the whole thing for me!

Also, I am a huge fan of buying a carton of custard and loving it.

Your semester break is without assignments, whereas I'm stressing over inquiries that I was supposed to do in my school and forgot about, not to mention my extension. Damn you and your baking! (Send me cookies.)

[lady-larla.livejournal.com]

So thats a laundry done and papers sorted is it??
Hmmm pie, was so worth the cleaning in the end *drool*