A pleasant day

[wiseheart]

One of my younger ex-colleagues paid me a visit today. She helped to set my birthday prezzie (the mini sewing machine) up correctly, so I hope I'll be able to use it in the future without difficulties.

Since Grandma always said that one ought to serve one's guests nice things, I baked a hazelnut-chocolate sponge cake, filled with red currant jam and topped with white chocolate icing.

Take a look:



The decoration consists of mini marshmallows and milk chocolate drops. It turned out very yummy. A good thing that I can eat basically everything in the 8 hours when I'm allowed to eat at all. As it is, I don't feel particularly hungry during the rest of the day, surprisingly enough. Actually, I eat less than I used to. Hopefully, it will work out. My ankles and knees would be grateful.

Other than that, yesterday we finally had the dratted windows cleaned, so a big part of the renovating hell's damage has been cleaned up. Only the doors left.

Comments

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

It looks delicious! Hazelnut, chocolate and berry sounds like a sublime combination.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

The cake looks delicious. I thought I detected mini marshmallows in the photo:)

I've got a lot of catching up to do on your LJ posts- I am eager to hear about this 8 hour eating period you mentioned.
Starting this week I stopped eating after dinner. Too many extra snacks in the evening while watching TV or reading.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

:D

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

It's surprising how dirty windows seem to creep up on you. One of the first things I noticed in my rental agreement was that the owner insists that the windows be cleaned monthly. Fortunately, I found a cleaner fairly easily, because even though my property is on the ground floor, cleaning them would involve ladders.

[meathiel]

The cake looks really yummy ...

Happy sewing!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, it turned out delicious. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Don't I know it! I think simply the fact that I no longer can keep snacking in front of the telly will do me a wealth of good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I must ruefully admit that we only have the windows cleaned twice a year. That's what curtains are for. *g*
Ladders are the main problem with us, too; Mum is too old to climb on them, and I got vertigo after three steps upwards.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We'll see how happy the sewing turns out to be. In any case, I've bought polyester thread specifically for the sewing machine and am planning to sew the parts for the binding of the quiet book tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Hope the machine helps ease sewing the book bindings. Your cake looks delicious. I am definitely going to try your diet if I am able to eat desserts - Yum!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, that was what made me interested in this particular diet, too. My previous ones always failed due to the fact that I wasn't allowed to eat anything even vaguely tasty. The colleague who suggested it does have a protein drink as her last meal of the day, but I think if I balance my foodstuffs well I won't need such artificial help. Besides, the mere name of a protein drink reminds me of that early X-files episode where Alicia Coppola's character had killed people and put their intestines into a mixer, because her body couldn't product certain stuffs she needed to stay alive.