Monday is over

I survived the first day! There are some changes thou. First of all the mayor is going to get a cake. It will be easier and look more impressive than the custard kisses I was planning. Second I’m getting the tyres today. It will take 2 hours after my doctors appointment, but it will leave Thursday for relaxing before Friday.

At present this blog is in danger of turning in to food blog. I’m really proud of my strawberry cream pie because I made up the recipe. I don’t do this very often. I’m good at following others recipes. Since it is all mine I can legally share, so here goes.

Base

125grms of wine biscuits (1/2 a packet, use the other half to make those truffles)

50grms butter

2 Tbsp sugar

Crush the biscuits in the food processor. Add the butter and sugar and pulse to combine. Press in to a spring form. A 20cm will give you a deep pie, a 23cm a shallow pie. Bake at 180c for about 7 mins until lightly browned. Be careful the base can burn quickly.

Filling

1 can of strawberry’s (you’ll find these in the can fruit section)

1 strawberry jelly

250g tub cream cheese

1 cup cream, whipped.

Empty the can of strawberry’s in to a pot and heat until boiling. Remove from heat and dissolve the jelly in to the strawberry’s. Cool mixture to room temperature. Place mixture in food processor. Add cream cheese, which should be slightly soft and cut in to small blocks. Mix to combine. This will also puree the strawberry’s. Once cream cheese is mixed through, chill mixture until it is the consistency of whipped cream. Then add the whipped cream, pour over base and set. Top with fresh strawberry’s to serve if you want to. Enjoy!

The progress of my pie was not as smooth as the instructions. I dropped the bowl just before I put it in the fridge to chill. The mess of pink sticky mixture is best left to the imagination. I had mixture in my hair. I almost cried.

I did recover to make the lemon honey, which was incident free. I would post pictures of my recovered pie and the lovely jars of lemon honey but I am cameraless. This is because the Hubster took the camera to his lab to take pictures of his important experiments. So here’s a picture of someone else’s lemon honey.