...trying to decipher the truth when all the clues and information are missing and the only thing left is a fleeting memory of how I think things should be...

Friday, September 16, 2011

Fronds of optimism.

I have had such a strange and busy week. I think its soccer being added into my schedule, the lack of swimming and sunlight, new stupid stress (I lost my car keys), making tiramisu for 50 people and taking photos at a wedding this Saturday that is also weighing heavily on my mind. 

Essentially I have a darling husband and adorable childers that love me. And everything else is just superfluous noise trying to distract me from my happiness. 

I stayed up with my neighbours daughter making the tiramisu. I use the Williams-Sonoma recipe and I made my own Genoise sponge cake instead of buying lady fingers from Publix. I needed 96 servings of lady fingers... Publix would never carry that amount. In fact the selection of lady fingers has been appalling. 

Generally, we South Africans, prefer to make tiramisu with a boudoir biscuit base. Bakers Biscuits from South Africa has apparently stopped making them.... (three years ago!!) so no wonder I couldn't find them here. The boudoir biscuit will be sadly missed. It was the favourite 'baby' teething biscuit. Long and dry like a finger, ie lady fingers being used as a substitute. 

I have fond memories of my brother, now 22, sitting in his high chair and gumming on a boudoir biscuit. He also then painted the wall next to him with the goooey brown boudoir concrete paste he created with his saliva and biscuit... he he he... was so funny... I thought my own Felicia would be able to have boudoir biscuits when she teethed... but the only thing we found were Baby Mum Mums which in fact turned out to be a product of China. So they got turfed into the trash ASAP. 

Because I quadrupled the recipe, the egg yolks came up higher in the double boiler than I imagined they would. And my tiramisu seems a bit wobbly this morning even though it was refridgerated over night. I have over $100 in the 96 servings of tiramisu. It tastes amazing (I have a heavy hand with the liqueur).... so wobbly it shall be. 

This morning I went and bought some white sugar roses to decorate the top of the tiramisu.... and white ribbon for the wedding pressie... its in a purple box... thought white ribbon would be classic. I really would love to have made the white sugar roses, but I would need fondant, fondant tools, and oh a marble top work space, and not the crammed linoleum and compressed particle board laminate that I have in my kitchen... :) 


Tonight is Mitzi's soccer photo shoot... got to wash her hair after school and blow dry it and jazz it up with some red ribbons.... The photos will be at 6h20pm... so just adorable I am sure... UNLESS it rains. There's just something amazing and magic with the air this time of year, especially at dusk and dawn. Its almost tangible... sort of a magic magnetic quality. I know other people feel it too. Its like our little plateau of a town becomes an easel for the displaying of the most beautiful colours and bedazzling light shows when the sun cracks through the dawn, or when it fades into the sky at night. 
 

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