Busy day

[wiseheart]

Utterly boring domestic report behind the tag. You've been warned. *g*


I was busy today. And with amazing results, too!

First, I've finished Slave Labour! Yay! My brain slowly starts to revive from the status of dry sponge. It was really, really, really hard!

Then I prepared dinner. This is the second time this year that we had aparagus. Mmmm, delicious - unfortunately, also outrageously expensive. I made asparagus puree with steamed broccoli and roast chicken. Yum.

Then I got inspired, dug out Granny's old cookie book and made cherry pie. I've been pining for that cherry pie all week, and I thought I've deserved to have it, after that horrid translation.


Now I'm going to type up what little is written from the Young Lindir ficlet. The one with the butterflies. No, not the one Gemma suggested. The one inspired by Ro's picture.

Comments

I *Adore* cherry pie...

[jastaelf.livejournal.com]

...and I agree you deserve it after all you went through with that doggone translation!! :-)

Congratulations that you are done with it--and can I have your cherry pie recipe? :-)

Hugs,
Jasta

Re: I *Adore* cherry pie...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. Although *pie* probably isn't the correct term. I'm not familiar with English cooking expressions.

Anyway, you take 6 eggs. They are your measurements. You weigh the other ingredients with them like this:

butter: 2 eggs
flour: 4 eggs
sugar: 6 eggs

Stir butter with eggyolk (that's the yellow part of them, right?) until the mass is smooth. Beat the egg whites to that white, fluffy thingy (don't know the name, sorry). Add it to the youl/sugar/butter mix, stir it smooth. Lastly, add the flour. Same process.

Smear a baking tin with butter or fat and spread it with flour or dry breadcrumbs. Pour the mix into it. (Obviously, the tin has to have a rim.) Put cherries onto the mix - lots of them. You can use both canned ones or fresh ones. Put it into the oven. Bake it until it's light brown. Cut it into small quadrants while it's still warm and spread icing sugar onto it.

That's the whole trick. It's done and ready within the hour.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm... sounds delicious! I made a white pizza (no tomato sauce, lots of garlic, kalamata (black) olives) tonight for much the same reason: craving.

BTW, I thought I posted a new entry to my LJ Friday night that included a very brief note to you, but it's not here. Is that unusual?

Re: I *Adore* cherry pie...

[jilba.livejournal.com]

The Cherry Pie sounds lovely, and I bet you enjoyed it after your busy day.

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Why do I get hungry after reading your entries? Probably because my idea of cooking is to fry an egg, and it's too tempting to read about other people's delicious meals :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Getover here during summer holidays, and I shall feed you properly.