Some possibly interesting things that have happened in the last month (sort of in chronological order):
I went to Glasgow
I saw The Little Shop of Horrors at the Pitlochry Theatre
We got a stove/oven thing in the staff accommodation so we can cook real food rather than fast food and microwave food
I cooked rice in the microwave (several times, now) and it didn't fail!!
My boss has started calling me Matilda because of Waltzing Matilda ... (I'm worried that I'll actually start answering to it by the end of the summer!!)
My mum sent me some rice bread which has been awesome and yummy
Baileys is possibly my new favourite alcohol and Nora (the other waitress) and I discovered that it is amazing on vanilla ice cream
I found the most amazing chocolate cake
Which brings me to CAKE!!!
Tomorrow is my day off. I always try to do something nice, like go out for lunch, go to another town or city. This week I've saved up heaps of the money I set aside to spend on food, etc. because I decided to stop buying junk food and eat nice, healthy, fructose and lactose free meals (for those who don't know, I'm fructose and lactose intolerant).
I decided to go to one of the cafe/restaurants that I really like for dinner. Partly for fun and partly because they have free wi-fi and I bought LA Noire from Steam this morning because it was 75% off and the internet on my phone is way too slow to download 12GB (turns out the free wifi is too ...)
Anyway, I got crumbed calamari to start which was really nice and tender and not too oily or anything. Then I had lasagna because almost everything else on the menu was fish, and I didn't feel like more seafood. There was nothing particularly special about it. It was yummy, though.
Then the waitress plonked the dessert menu in front of me. I looked through it and debated whether I wanted more wheat and sugar and dairy and all that stuff that I've been avoiding for the past week. Since I had gone out as a special treat and all, I convinced myself to try the chocolate cake. It had a really tasty name ... something to do with chocolate fudge something. I got Baileys and milk, too, because the tasty name of the cake sounded like it would go well with Baileys.
I'm sure you all know that I am a complete snob about my baking. My cupcakes are the nicest in the world and so id my chocolate fudge mousse cake.
This cake was equal to or better than my chocolate cake.
It was warm and fudgey and creamy and melty. It had warm sauce in the middle that was rich, but sweet enough to balance the richness of the cake.
I actually wanted it with cream, but I think she heard me wrong. i'm glad, though. it was proper ice cream. It was really creamy and had real vanilla bean! It tasted just like the first ice cream I made, but only my parents had that. For the rest of you, it was sort of like the other vanilla ice cream I make, except creamier and with more vanilla flavour. IT WAS SO NICE!!!!! And it did go really well with the Baileys.
As you can imagine, after all that high fructose and lactose food, I have a TERRIBLE stomach ache ... But it was SO worth it!!
Anyway, that is Cake. And now I must sleep to recover from cake.
I will possibly post again at some point ... We shall see ...
xoxo
