Transfiguration

[wiseheart]

... aka putting your strawberries to creative use.

Behold my extremely yummy strawberry and vanilla custard slices, with a cocoa sponge base (Grandma's idiot proof recipe) and way too little jelly on top:



Needless to say that we had leftover soup and strawberry slices for lunch. *g*

Also: Habemus papam! And an American one, too, which is a first. I never heard of the man, will have to do some research to learn who and what kind he is, but let's hope.

Not much else happened; the traybake was a labour-heavy one, so I didn't have any energy left for being creative in any way. We're still continuing our kitchen cleaning project, but that's mostly Mum's job now: washing up all the stuff we barely use. Our Harrods ceramic sugar jar had an accident: great parts of its upper rim broke off. Mum says it must have happened earlier, but I'm fairly sure it was her, opening the snap seal; it always stuck a bit. I tried to repair it, but my superglue had dried out and the normal one won't hold the pieces for long. I'll try to ask in the craft store what to use next time I'll be there.

Comments

[meathiel]

Hm ... those look good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They are delicious! Of course, had I made three portions of Tortenguss instead of only one, they'd look even better, but I hadn't thought of it in time.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yum.

I watched his speech on TV. Very cool. I hope he does well.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I am very envious of your slices! All I had was mummified strawberries sans cake...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ugh, mummified strawberries sound horrible!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too. The late Pope Francis has started a great many things that need further development; a successor who tries to steer everything back again would be very bad for the Church.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I think it's possible to get ceramic glues. I'm not sure how effective they will be if the lid was a bit tight, however.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

My fears exactly. Which is why we decided simply not to close the lid completely in the future. The jar looks as if it would try to swallow one, but we aren't afraid of it. ;))

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

The strawberry dessert looks delicious!
*Squirms* I need to clean my cupboards...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The slices are delicious indeed. Of course, I've made more than we could eat before the fresh strawberries would go bad; fortunately, our neighbours are very helpful in such cases. *g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That looks very tasty. Oddly, I made a plain vanilla cake topped with strawberries for a meeting last night — I think yours looks nicer.