I know last year I said I would try Chuck's Louisiana style King Cake. But I did not have time for a yeast dough so decided to fall back on the usual King's galette. So here's how to celebrate epiphany our way. First when your friend phones you at work to confirm she has picked up your child from school somehow manage to get invited to her place for dinner with use of her kitchen thrown in so you can make pudding. Get puzzled look from Alison as when Christine tells me she has spent all day looking for a birthday present and found one my first question was "is it the mind blowing kiss?". Apparently it isn't but I'll get to find out what it is tomorrow. After work go home and collect Him Indoors, a bottle of wine, ingredients for the galette, the essential feve and half the contents of own kitchen to take to Christine's just in case. Take over the kitchen and send the children to another room on a mission to produce a crown for the King and another for the Queen. Roll out puff pastry, hunt for a big enough baking sheet, settle for a large cast iron pan with a removable handle. Spread frangipane (creamed butter and sugar, about 50g of each, 2 egg yolkes, 150g of ground almonds, almond essence, 2 whisked egg whites), decide sliced pear would make a nice addition. Place the little porcelaine Mary in strategic location so as not to cut a slice in which the feve wouldoverlap. Like so... Place another disk of puff pastry on top. Mark out the correct number of slices. Eggwash. Place in oven at about 200o untill puffed up and golden. Eat lovely dinner made even lovelier by not having to cook it and by Christine having lit up candles and tea lights and by the children keeping themselves busy out of earshot. Enjoy thouroughly. When ready for pudding, call children down, admire the crowns and get the youngest to slip under the table and shout out who the next slice should be for. Try not to laugh when youngest child puts Queen crown on later and says with utmost seriousness that he can wear it because his older sister said he IS a drama queen. Go home to put The Boy into bed due to Thursday being a school night. Remember I have to bake a cake to take into work tomorrow for my birthday. Realise it may not have been wise to have a second glass of wine. Bake peach and almond cake which anybody who has seen me with more than a small amount of alcohol inside will accept is quite impressive, and I did not burn myself or the cake. Get Him Indoors to accuse me of trying to cash in on the insurance money by inducing a heart attack because I cleared up after myself AND did the washing up as a small compensation for him not getting to eat any of the cake tomorrow.
12th night
7.1.05 00:36
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(7.1.05 00:47) "Try not to laugh when youngest child puts Queen crown on later and says with utmost seriousness that he can wear it because his older sister said he IS a drama queen." Youngest is a genius. Truly. Hope you get your mind blowing kiss... -pete |
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(7.1.05 01:47) gah...with all these lovely foodie posts you are making me feel terribly inadequate...but more importantly, very hungry! |
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(7.1.05 08:46) I hope so too Pete LP, nothing wrong with hungry. Hungry is good, it's what makes food taste better. |
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christine (7.1.05 15:43) The galette was delish...was v.surprised (!) to be the recipient of Mary and therefore become Queen for the year. BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! - pete: you changed your name! when did that happen?? |
