[Sca-cooks] Re: Christmas Dinner?

[Generys ferch Ednuyed]

Don't feel bad, I had the exact same thing happen to me when I attempted to
make a triple-chocolate ice cream cake... too much ice cream led to ice
cream all over my kitchen - I'm surprised it wasn't on the ceiling, it was
certainly everywhere else (not that that's hard, my kitchen is tiny).

Generys

----- Original Message -----
From: <rose at got.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 1:09 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Christmas Dinner?


| We had Christmas dinner with my in-laws, and our friend Seamus who has
been
| adopted by them.
|
| My father-in-law is usually the cook, and he absolutely hates cooking
turkey.
| In the past 11 years, we have had turkey exactly twice -- most
Thanksgiving and
| Christmas dinners are pot roast, deep dish pizza, lasagne or chicken and
| biscuits.
|
| Yesterday was smoked tri-tip.  We potlucked the side dishes and desserts.
| There were glazed carrots, green beans and yams with marshmallows (my
brother-
| in-law's favorite).  Seamus brought his famous mushrooms in madiera.
|
| Santiago and I tried making a variant of black forest cherry cake, which
turned
| out ... interesting.  Santiago made very rich vanilla ice cream with egg
yolks
| and kirsch.  I made a chocolate sponge layer, and the idea was to fill it
with
| the ice cream and brandied cherries, roll it and cover it with chocolate
| ganache.  The filling part was easy, but the rolling was an unmitigated
| disaster.  The cake disintigrated and there was ice cream everywhere.  So
we
| scraped it all up and put it into a container, and stuck it in the freezer
| while we brainstormed fixes.  I made another single-layer chocolate cake,
cut
| it in half horizontally, and then sandwiched the failed-cake ice cream
inside.
| Then we covered that with the chocolate ganache, whipped cream and grated
| bittersweet chocolate.  It wasn't the work of art I was hoping for, but it
| certainly wasn't bad!
|
| Rose - whose cookies arrived on Christmas Eve, thanks Apollonia!
|
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