In the course of various bouts of feasting and down right excess, let's be honest, middle LHA made some custard for some of the leftover, leftover, pudding.
It was a tad lumpy and Mrs LHA offered " lovely dear, do mush the powder paste to get rid of any lumps- you can always strain it or whizz it in the blender"
She replied " No, I used Daddies recipe with eggs" :D
She had managed to scramble the eggs while cooking. I am still pretending the black bits were vanilla ......
Did anyone had any Christmas disasters, or successes on the cooking front? Did the Mother in law find nothing to grinch about!?
In the hall we have a dwarf wall ( as a seat to put on boots shoes etc) which took a knock leaving a big patch of plaster on the floor. Having ordered some building supplies for various projects over the next month, I added a bucket of ready mix patching plaster.
Unibond was applied and a bit of "eml", and on the basis that my iced cakes are so flat smooth a golf ball will sit and not roll, I thought "plaster a wall, "how hard can it be? "
Two hours later, and the need to pray for a least a week to even be considered for forgiveness for cursing, there is no plaster on the wall, and a nasty email sent to the supplier for making plaster that could not stick to a flat horizontal surface.
And it stank of coffee and made both cats sneeze.
So if I ever have a second career it won't be plastering- I'll stick to cake making - "no bosh bosh shim shim loads a money", but "spread spread smooth smooth, lots of dough".
It was a tad lumpy and Mrs LHA offered " lovely dear, do mush the powder paste to get rid of any lumps- you can always strain it or whizz it in the blender"
She replied " No, I used Daddies recipe with eggs" :D
She had managed to scramble the eggs while cooking. I am still pretending the black bits were vanilla ......
Did anyone had any Christmas disasters, or successes on the cooking front? Did the Mother in law find nothing to grinch about!?
In the hall we have a dwarf wall ( as a seat to put on boots shoes etc) which took a knock leaving a big patch of plaster on the floor. Having ordered some building supplies for various projects over the next month, I added a bucket of ready mix patching plaster.
Unibond was applied and a bit of "eml", and on the basis that my iced cakes are so flat smooth a golf ball will sit and not roll, I thought "plaster a wall, "how hard can it be? "
Two hours later, and the need to pray for a least a week to even be considered for forgiveness for cursing, there is no plaster on the wall, and a nasty email sent to the supplier for making plaster that could not stick to a flat horizontal surface.
And it stank of coffee and made both cats sneeze.
So if I ever have a second career it won't be plastering- I'll stick to cake making - "no bosh bosh shim shim loads a money", but "spread spread smooth smooth, lots of dough".