Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Eat, drink, and be merry!

...for tomorrow we diet. And by "tomorrow", I mean in two or three weeks when the assorted left-overs, snacks and sweetmeats have finally met their demise. The past few days have, not unexpectedly, contained considerable amounts of both food and alcohol (although the former rather closer to excess than the latter). On the plus side, we have been out for a walk every day, and have spent little time in front of the goggle-box (although such sedentary pursuits as reading, playing board games, and wrestling with puzzles, quizzes, and crosswords are little better for the health).

First year with the new kitchen, and we actually managed to get the turkey spot on (after missing the mark in opposite directions the previous two years), so Christmas dinner itself was an almost¹ complete success. Alas, the traditional Christmas Eve ox-tounge was possibly even more over-salted than the previous year despite additional soaking, so it looks like that's off the menu next time. Today was the equally traditional turkey and left-over-vegetable curry - something that has very little danger of going wrong.

To add some educational merit to this post, here's a recipe for you. A rather fine pudding henceforth to be known as Chocolate Chestnut Coronary² Cake:

8oz dark cooking chocolate
8oz unsalted butter
8oz caster sugar
8oz chestnut purée
4 large eggs

Preheat the oven to 170°C and line a deep 8" cake tin with baking paper. Cream the sugar with the egg yolks. Melt the chocolate and the butter, then sieve in the chestnut purée. Stir together, then add the sugar/egg mix and stir again. Whip up the egg whites to the soft peak stage and fold them into the mix. Pour into the cake tin and bake for 25-30 minutes until the top looks done but the cake still wobbles a little. Leave to cool in the tin for at least half an hour. Eat, enjoy, expire.

1) The "almost" part being due to the Mini Bagpuss Crackers (eight for a pound). These promised a hat, a motto and a sticker sheet in each one. After one cracker each, we had two hats, four mottos (one blank) and no sticker sheets. After the remaining four crackers, we just managed an additional two paper hats, a total of six mottoes³, and one solitary sticker sheet. Unimpressed.

2) I'm not aware of anyone suffering a coronary as a direct result of eating this cake, but proceed at your own risk.

3) On further examination, we discovered that all six were printed with the same joke, which I reproduce verbatim below for your amusement:
What's the difference between a railway shed and tree ?
One leaves.its shed and the other sheds its leaves.
Not quite right, methinks...
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  • 3 comments

akahannah

December 26 2006, 21:13:29 UTC 14 years ago

Confession: I laughed out loud at that wrong joke.

But then I always prefer it when someone messes up the punchline anyway. :D

zorac

December 31 2006, 23:42:33 UTC 14 years ago

It was indeed far more amusing than it had any right to be. Of course, as we went around the table and each of us had the same joke, it made us all crack up that much more...

sophie10

December 27 2006, 10:20:32 UTC 14 years ago

*pokes your belly*

Also that joke is terrible, but like Hannah I did indeed laugh.