When you give a girl a cookbook ....

...She will ask for another cookbook. And then she will make a lot of food that doesn't look quite like it was supposed to, and then she will vow never to cook again.

The chocolate-chile cake tasted fine, but there was a bit of a ... layered thing going on. Here's a nice picture where you can't see that.


The coconut meringues were a bit too big, took longer to cook and are still a tad soft. But hey, meringues is meringues. Still good.
Forgot to take a picture of the paella. The shrimp and scallops were wonderfully tender; the whole thing needed a little salt, and the chicken wings didn't cook through, but it took less doctoring than the flan. I don't know who had the bright idea to make caramel with water, but it ... doesn't work splendidly well. At least not when you follow the directions. I now have Flan Topped With Crunchy Sugar Wafer instead of Flan Topped With Caramel, but ah, c'est la vie.

Today: Wash dishes.

Happy Birthday to Me

Apparently I needed to try limes, so naturally I decided to ... make a pie.
Fun thing to do on your birthday, right?
Managed to make a graham cracker crust without eating half of it
Got a sufficient amount of lime zest to whisk into the egg yolk without sneezing into the food (lime zest is ... zesty), and whisked and whisked and whisked until "very fluffy."

Whisked in the condensed milk - it was oddly beautiful swirling it into the egg yolk, though I couldn't really get a picture while holding the camera with my neck

PIE.
I was informed that it needed meringue, and the pie left me with three egg whites, so after about three years of beating egg whites (at least I'd realized by then I probably shouldn't use the wire whisk) ... PIE.



Is good.