Since my retirement from teaching, I have had a lot of time in which to randomly appreciate life, LadyRanger, Daisy, my house and, really, most of my environment. It's been a boon to me. One of the things I have really started enjoying is baking. I've always been a full partner in the cooking arena (really, when LadyRanger and I are in the kitchen together, working on our fancy Saturday night dinner, it can look like modern dance!) but I've not done much of the baking before.
LadyRanger does all of our bread baking. I get to do the tangential baking. Y'know, biscuits, cornbread, and of course, the sweet stuff. My chocolate-chip-cookie-fu is strong. I have been branching out, though. My latest creation was Gateau Basque! It is a really lovely pie/cake combo. It's got a cakey shell filled with cherry preserves and vanilla custard, and covered with another cake-like crust. While my attempt wasn't as pretty as the professional's, I think it was pretty nice.
Everything hand made save the cherry preserves. Not too bad for a first effort!
The big problem with the gateau (the french word for cake) was purely linguistic. Daisy misheard the pronunciation of gateau, and doesn't speak enough french to guess at a meaning. this lead to an unfortunate misunderstanding!
GATO Basque?!? you're eating a cake made out of Basque Cats??!!?? You MONSTER!!!!
She immediately retreated to the most secure fortress she could find,
I'm staying in here forever and NEVER trusting you ever again!!
I had to do some fancy dancing around the whole phonics/foreign language issue. Fortunately, I managed to convince her that she'd merely misheard me, and that the name of the cake sounded far more acceptable and significantly more delicious that she'd thought....
Wait, what's that you say? Gateau BATS? My, that does sound scrumptious! I'd eat the heck outta that. I'll go catch you some more bats! Carry on, then, save me a slice!
Crisis averted.
Daisy was actually convinced I wasn't a monster in time to help us decorate the tree. She was her usual, helpful self.
You're doing it wrong.
No pics yet of her under the tree. I'm sure I'll get a shot at some point, though. When I do, I'll share.
Have a great week ahead all! Be safe and well!
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de new yeer sew sayin merre Christmas and a happee healthee safe N blessed 2021 two ewe mom and dad. see ewe soon ♥️❤️
Posted by: da tabbies o trout towne | December 14, 2020 at 04:33 PM