A little while ago when my lady was struck down with the 'Rona, I decided it would be a nice idea to...
Make her one of her favourite sweet treats, I mean what could be better than for M'lady to see her loving man in the kitchen baking?
Lucky for you the travesty that ensued was recorded for the sake of posterity so that the sorry tale that unfolded could be shared as a warning to all, here today.
Stick to the stuff you know!
Am I a baker? Uhm well in all honesty the answer to that is a resounding no. I do enjoy messing about in the kitchen, combining ingredients that do not intuitively go together and testing out my enormous herb & spice collection.
The funny part is, the thing I chose to make was probably the simplest thing in the world to bake, how could it possibly go so, so wrong?
Thankfully I had this post in mind for a while so that even though I am incredibly pushed for time right now and can barely write a post each week or so, it was at hand when @galenkp set his weekend-engagement blog prompts for this very weekend.
This weeks prompts centre around the world of food, I knew the prompt I would choose immediately upon reading.
🍴Sweet food
Most of us love desserts and cakes; Tell us about your favourite cake or dessert to prepare or cook, share the recipe and method, and tell us why you love cooking, preparing (or eating) it. Bonus points for using your own photos.
As you may have deduced from the photos in the post, the sweet treat I chose to bake for m'lady was lemon curd tarts, you may not have had them but I am sure you have likely experienced their more famous cousin, jam tarts.
I did make some jam tarts too...
The Queen of Hearts
She made some tarts,
All on a summer's day;
The Knave of Hearts
He stole those tarts,
And took them clean away.
The King of Hearts
Called for the tarts,
And beat the knave full sore;
The Knave of Hearts
Brought back the tarts,
And vowed he'd steal no more.
The famous British nursery rhyme would suggest that tarts are a delicacy fit for royalty, so they would be more than adequate, right?
I wasn't merely making jam tarts either, I was stepping things up by adding lemon curd, how bourgeois, right?
I will allow you to judge for yourself, from the sticky, gluey, stodgy mess you see before you just how well it all worked out. I will say however that m'lady did, 'try' them and massively appreciated the thoughtful gesture...
There's a lesson there too, it is an incredibly intimate thing to make food for someone who feels a little bruised, battered or off-colour and always demonstrates just how much you care about them... Even if the end result doesn't quite live up to the promise we held in our mind's eye.
I can certainly say they were made with love, and they weren't absolutely terrible, just regular terrible...
Yup! Bigmouth strikes again...
Wow! I did it!!!
I wrote a post of around 500 words, yup, you read that right 500ish not 12'000. Full disclosure, I do have to leave for work in 20 minutes haha.
Have a fab new week ahead, may it be a great one filled with fun, friends and fulfilment 😎
Thank YOU for taking the time to read my post and if you're one of those amazing people who like to hit the comments section... Then I doubly thank YOU!
Either way I want you to know that you are appreciated!
Keep taking the time to connect with each-other both here and in the 'so-called' real world and try and look after each-other, because as you already know...
