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curiouswombat) wrote2013-04-01 07:36 pm
curiouswombat) wrote2013-04-01 07:36 pm
From rough seas to chocolate trifle...
I hope you have all had a good Easter Weekend.
Under the cut are a few pictures ranging, as my subject line says, from a rough sea to a chocolate trifle! Also a couple of pictures of my Easter Eggs...
So - the sea is such a changing subject that I cannot resist taking more pictures of it!
This one was taken a week ago, when we had had wind speeds of 30-40mph for days and, of course, the west of the island was under many feet of snow. But this was taken on the east coast, in bright sunshine.
And now - here is the Easter egg S2C gave me -
And the one that D-d gave me -
Would you believe I am still sitting gloating over them and have not broken either of them yet!
Easter seems to revolve around church (Maundy Thursday and Easter Day for me) and food.
Good Friday means hot cross buns and fish and chips from the chip shop - that they come from the chip shop is most important for tradition! I also spent some time on Friday to make a last minute simnel cake. (Last minute requires a different mixture to one done well in advance - this time it was made with the mincemeat kept since Christmas to make a nice moist fruit cake.)
Saturday was fairly much an ordinary Saturday - except that I put the marzipan on the simnel cake and did all but the top layer of a very chocolate trifle. Every year D-d goes on a chocolate fast for Lent - and this was for us to have with our dinner on Easter Day to celebrate the end of her fast.
It had something of a Black Forest vibe as we used cherries for the fruit as S2C prefers them to the raspberries in the original recipe.
Here is the finished item, ready for eating on Sunday -
You can see all the layers there -
1. chocolate cake well sprinkled with alcohol of choice (Glayva in this case)
2. fruit layer - tinned cherries with a touch more alcohol
3. vanilla custard (I am a pleb - I use Birds...)
4. chocolate custard (as above but with melted chocolate added before it cooled)
5. whipped cream
And in this one you can see the grated chocolate on top.
Actually it was prettier in real life, I think.
Poor old S2C had to spend the day in bed as he was at work this weekend. But D-d and I ate smoked salmon and cream cheese on freshly baked bread, straight from the oven, for our Easter Lunch before we visited my Mum in the afternoon, watched the boat race with her, and ate simnel cake. (No picture of that - I forget to do it.)
Dinner was slow roast pork, roasted apple for sauce, and assorted vegetables - followed by that trifle! It was very good.
Today I visited an elderly church member who lives nearby, and can't get to church these days. She was reminiscing about bad snow when she was a girl - I might get around to posting about it sometime. Then I made the 3 different sponges to make D-d's birthday cake for Wednesday... I have had a lovely time baking and making for these past few days!
Under the cut are a few pictures ranging, as my subject line says, from a rough sea to a chocolate trifle! Also a couple of pictures of my Easter Eggs...
So - the sea is such a changing subject that I cannot resist taking more pictures of it!
This one was taken a week ago, when we had had wind speeds of 30-40mph for days and, of course, the west of the island was under many feet of snow. But this was taken on the east coast, in bright sunshine.
And now - here is the Easter egg S2C gave me -
And the one that D-d gave me -
Would you believe I am still sitting gloating over them and have not broken either of them yet!
Easter seems to revolve around church (Maundy Thursday and Easter Day for me) and food.
Good Friday means hot cross buns and fish and chips from the chip shop - that they come from the chip shop is most important for tradition! I also spent some time on Friday to make a last minute simnel cake. (Last minute requires a different mixture to one done well in advance - this time it was made with the mincemeat kept since Christmas to make a nice moist fruit cake.)
Saturday was fairly much an ordinary Saturday - except that I put the marzipan on the simnel cake and did all but the top layer of a very chocolate trifle. Every year D-d goes on a chocolate fast for Lent - and this was for us to have with our dinner on Easter Day to celebrate the end of her fast.
It had something of a Black Forest vibe as we used cherries for the fruit as S2C prefers them to the raspberries in the original recipe.
Here is the finished item, ready for eating on Sunday -
You can see all the layers there -
1. chocolate cake well sprinkled with alcohol of choice (Glayva in this case)
2. fruit layer - tinned cherries with a touch more alcohol
3. vanilla custard (I am a pleb - I use Birds...)
4. chocolate custard (as above but with melted chocolate added before it cooled)
5. whipped cream
And in this one you can see the grated chocolate on top.
Actually it was prettier in real life, I think.
Poor old S2C had to spend the day in bed as he was at work this weekend. But D-d and I ate smoked salmon and cream cheese on freshly baked bread, straight from the oven, for our Easter Lunch before we visited my Mum in the afternoon, watched the boat race with her, and ate simnel cake. (No picture of that - I forget to do it.)
Dinner was slow roast pork, roasted apple for sauce, and assorted vegetables - followed by that trifle! It was very good.
Today I visited an elderly church member who lives nearby, and can't get to church these days. She was reminiscing about bad snow when she was a girl - I might get around to posting about it sometime. Then I made the 3 different sponges to make D-d's birthday cake for Wednesday... I have had a lovely time baking and making for these past few days!
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I am drooling all over my keyboard reading about and enjoying the photo of your trifle. It looks wonderful in every way!
If I lived near the sea I don't think I could stop photographing it.
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The trifle was easy to make - well worth copying.
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Oh wow - I always buy chocolate custard for desserts because I was never sure how to make it :( You mean all I have to do is melt the chocolate and add it to the custard while they're both still hot? I have no idea why I never thought of it.... Thank you *g*.
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I'm trying to make up my mind which I'd rather have the smoked salmon, or the roast. As for the triffle and the cake, I'd most definitely have a piece of each.
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I shall try to be good!
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- Erulisse (one L)
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I think I prefer our large chocolate egg tradition to the marshmallow peeps one of so many USA friends, to be honest!
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That trifle looks lethal, in a good way.
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The trifle was very good. My friend tells me it even made it onto Facebook...!
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Happy Birthday to your daughter! We still haven't celebrated our daughter's birthday, as snow prevented us for two weekends, and it appears a death in the family will take up the next.
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The one from D-d is quite thick chocolate with freeze dried raspberries embedded in it - which is really unusual. The one for S2C is more traditional - when I break into it it will be filled with individual chocolates.
We do see the occasional chocolate rabbit - usually Lindt ones.
We had present giving and cake last night for D-d's birthday - she'd lunched with friends. A long way from those parties when the girls were only in single figures...