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hathycolCheesecake.
Frelling cheesecake.
"It's easy," Mum said. "You made it in cookery class once, remember? The recipe's is very easy to follow..."
Stupidly, I actually believed her. So, as soon as Dad left the house, I get the ingrediants out, I flip to the cookery book page, and all hell breaks lose.
I coped with melting the butter. I coped with beating the digestives. I coped with mixing the two. I began to feel quite cheerful, until I read the next line.
Whip the cream...
Panic. I may (nearly) have a GCSE in food technology, but I don't have a clue what whipping cream actually means. So, in a haze of panic, I stand in front of the jug with the cream in, staring at it, until I crack and phone up Mum. She laughs at me merrily, before giving me step by step instructions on what to do as well as handy hints for the rest of the recipe. So, I whip the cream, which took AGES but I was very proud of myself when it actually went all stiff. I knew the rest of the recipe (Yes, I know how to beat philadelphia!) and then it was all sorted.
The problem is, I don't actually like lemon cheesecake. The stuff is foul. Mum informs me to "keep on tasting it when you mix it in or else you'll add too much of something." I do not have a clue how it's supposed to taste, cos it all tastes crap to me. I just ended up putting it all in together, mixing thoroughly and putting on the top. I hope it astes kay. It looks lemon cheesecakey, anyway.
Here comes Bitch About Cheesecake Number 3- decoration. Kiwi fruit, apparantly. I don't dislike kiwi fruit. I don't particularly love it, either. It's one of those things that just is. I do, however, resent the kiwi fruit SLIGHTLY more now. It's a pain in the arse getting the skin off, and it just wouldn't sit right on the top. I mean, really. What was wrong with using strawberries or something?
So, now I've made the bloody cheesecake, I had to clean up the mess. It looked like my sister had been cooking, it was that bad. But now the kitchen is clean (about time) the pits of kiwi are picked up off the floor, the dishwasher is on, and all I have to worry about is keeping Dad the hell away from the fridge and the dog eating it before we can serve it.
I didn't like cheesecake before. Now I hate the stuff.
~Hathy_Col~
Frelling cheesecake.
"It's easy," Mum said. "You made it in cookery class once, remember? The recipe's is very easy to follow..."
Stupidly, I actually believed her. So, as soon as Dad left the house, I get the ingrediants out, I flip to the cookery book page, and all hell breaks lose.
I coped with melting the butter. I coped with beating the digestives. I coped with mixing the two. I began to feel quite cheerful, until I read the next line.
Whip the cream...
Panic. I may (nearly) have a GCSE in food technology, but I don't have a clue what whipping cream actually means. So, in a haze of panic, I stand in front of the jug with the cream in, staring at it, until I crack and phone up Mum. She laughs at me merrily, before giving me step by step instructions on what to do as well as handy hints for the rest of the recipe. So, I whip the cream, which took AGES but I was very proud of myself when it actually went all stiff. I knew the rest of the recipe (Yes, I know how to beat philadelphia!) and then it was all sorted.
The problem is, I don't actually like lemon cheesecake. The stuff is foul. Mum informs me to "keep on tasting it when you mix it in or else you'll add too much of something." I do not have a clue how it's supposed to taste, cos it all tastes crap to me. I just ended up putting it all in together, mixing thoroughly and putting on the top. I hope it astes kay. It looks lemon cheesecakey, anyway.
Here comes Bitch About Cheesecake Number 3- decoration. Kiwi fruit, apparantly. I don't dislike kiwi fruit. I don't particularly love it, either. It's one of those things that just is. I do, however, resent the kiwi fruit SLIGHTLY more now. It's a pain in the arse getting the skin off, and it just wouldn't sit right on the top. I mean, really. What was wrong with using strawberries or something?
So, now I've made the bloody cheesecake, I had to clean up the mess. It looked like my sister had been cooking, it was that bad. But now the kitchen is clean (about time) the pits of kiwi are picked up off the floor, the dishwasher is on, and all I have to worry about is keeping Dad the hell away from the fridge and the dog eating it before we can serve it.
I didn't like cheesecake before. Now I hate the stuff.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2003-08-19 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-19 01:55 pm (UTC)What horrors will this produce once we try it? *shudders*
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Date: 2003-08-19 02:01 pm (UTC)