We had a very welcome heatwave over the past few days, and yesterday it was probably the hottest. As you can see, our thermometer claimed it hit 100 – but I think the gauge was sitting in the sun and it wasn’t quite that warm. We did a TON – massive amounts – of yardwork. Not so much on our yard as on our woods… trying to clear out the billions of saplings that have sprung up and burn all the debris from this winter’s ice storm. So, I didn’t get any outdoor pictures but Arin enjoyed his refreshing juice…
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As I was taking the chicken out of the oven and resting it on the stove, I happened to glance over at my delicious buttery cream tea scones (which taste a thousand times better when using butter and milk instead of just cream, btw), and noticed an uncanny resemblance. It’s like my curried honey chicken was dressing up as scones for Halloween! 🙂 And yes, I DO have an unhealthy obsession with scones. 😉
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Big surprise! There’s few things better than sweet, light, delicious home-made whipped cream. Mmm. I think warm weather makes whipped cream taste even better… not to mention the added fun of licking the blender bits! Ignore how messy the mommy is… I really need an apron apparently!! As a bonus, a pretty frilly housewife apron would be a lot more attractive than old workout clothes. 🙂 “Got to go, busy nom’ing on yummies!“
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Dear Ms Curcuru, Thank you for your email regarding the availability of our puds in America. We have expanded into Europe (France & Belgium). Unfortunately our delicioüs puds are not currently available in the USA and sadly, because they must be kept chilled, it is not possible to ship them or to order them online. As you saw on our website, our products are sold by a company called Shaws: however this is a small UK-based company, as distinct from the US chain of stores. Our web team had unfortunately obtained the wrong logo, which I understand must have been…
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He ate the band-aid.
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We’re having a heat wave here for the next few days, so we’ve been playing outside. Somehow, today Bobo just got his first splinter. I didn’t notice until we came in for a juice break and was cleaning off his hands. Eek, splinters are so horrible!He was really good, sitting still and only protesting the pain a little as I removed it. The tweezers didn’t work and were apparently very painful, and I ended up just being able to slide it out with my fingernail (not in contact with the broken skin, it was hygenic). He didn’t like the alcohol…
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When I first saw a PrincesstÃ¥rta I fell in love, they are so beautiful, so delicate, so Princess-like! They are a pale green, domed fondant (or marzipan) covered cake decorated with a rose on top. Inside they feature layers of sponge cake, vanilla custard, raspberry jam and artfully sculpted whipped cream. I mentioned my princess cake quest previously, and below are all the details. PrincesstÃ¥rtor are popular cakes in Sweden, and since I had never seen one before I figured the only way I would get to try one was to make it myself (apparently though they can be had…
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I don’t know if anyone else used to use Geocities or has heard of it… but it was basically THE place to host your free website 10-15 years ago. Yahoo bought them some time after they weren’t very relevant anymore and lamely tried to make money on it. Maybe they did, I don’t know, but I think yahoo makes everything it touches cheap and stupid.Anyway, now Yahoo has decided to take everything Geocities offline… permanantly. Which means deleting all the tons of antique webpages (and some still relevant ones I’m assuming). Isn’t there some sort of Internet Historical Preservation Society…
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UPDATE: I won! I conquered the PrincesstÃ¥rta…. mostly. More on this later. In the meantime… anyone want to come over for cake? We cannot finish this thing. (Original Post) This is my next project: A delicate, delicious and absolutely beautiful Swedish princess cake romantically called… PrincesstÃ¥rta. First I have to go grocery shopping to pick up supplies. Next, I will be making homemade marshmallow fondant. Then I will be baking the sponge cake. I will spend a very long time trying to assemble the whipped cream dome. Finally, I will totally fail at spreading the fondant over the whole thing.…
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During Todd’s Spring Break, Arin got to enjoy a lot of company – and had a blast. He loved hanging out with the ‘big kids’. Here he is at the breakfast table with the guys… my cousin Dan, some tall kid, and Uncle Todd. I love that Bobo is already so into computers! Now he just has to invent the new Facebook (since the current one is down the drain) and then we can live happily ever after. 🙂
