I’ve done my first ever “order”. I haven’t taken a payment for it, as it’s for Lisa, but I’ve made over 60 rather perfect macaroons, that will be served on Bessie’s christening tomorrow. Lemon-yuzu, blackcurrant and raspberry. Facing an audience tomorrow, rather just family and friends. It does feel good, I have to say. 🙂
My Brother From Another Mother Darek is visiting from the land of Poland, along with his lovely wife Beata. Food is a touch more sophisticated and always followed by dessert, rather than just a cup of tea. A dupa rosnie, as they say in Poland. 🙂
After the success of green tea ice cream from mojewypieki.com, followed by the success of the not that great batch of that very flavour, which I then turned into strawberry ice cream, by just chucking lots of strawberry coulis into it and finding it rather lovely, I made lemon meringue ice cream. Recipe as before, 200 g of sweetened condensed milk, 200 ml of double cream whipped into creamy dream by kitchen aid, a juice of 1 lemon and a zest of it added, plus about 2 tsps of lemon curd. I didn’t want that lemon flavour to be shy, so I think next time it might be yuzu. Finally, 2 crushed in meringues, next time I’ll double it, it makes a great little texture contrast on the palate.
This evening however we had tarte tatin, so I made vanilla ice cream, which turned out to be good enough for Darek to lick the dish off, the first ever ice cream that went within one evening. Again, 200 g of condensed milk, 200 ml of the cream, lots of vanilla paste. Raging freaking success. 🙂
