When I imagine myself as a wife... and later as a mother I fancy myself to be very domestic; which most of the time I am woefully not. But I have my moments. It's sort of like grown-up dress-up for me. I pretend I am meticulous at organization (very Martha or like I could be featured in the very cool mag Domino) and get my clean on in brief bursts. I make-believe I'm like Rachel Ray and can whip up yummy things easily while keeping my sense of humor intact and floating around the kitchen gracefully. I play domestic goddess as I toss laundry into the washer and sometimes I even stop long enough to squirt on some spray & wash. So since I imagine such roles for myself to act out (I really missed my theatrical calling) it is obvious that these qualities aren't always my mode of operation. I'm hoping that maybe someday if I make believe enough I am these characters, play enough with my grand thoughts, pretend enough and fake my way through these task that I don't always find easy or enjoy that they will someday become more of who I am; how I live daily, what I do with my time to make our life happier and healthier. There's always the hope of that.
With all that nonsense said I played Chef this weekend. I tried a couple of new recipes (which I hate to do because I always fear it isn't going to be as good as I hoped and I will then have nothing to eat for dinner or to take somewhere or serve to guests... it's the perfectionist in me. I'm working on it.) and cooked up storm. It was a tasty weekend. I made a lovely Strawberry Newport or some call it a Napoleon. It was sooooooo yummy. I used Filo dough because I couldn't find puff pastry at the store. Man that stuff is temperamental. And to be fair I went into the filo dealings knowing I wasn't going to do it exactly like I should if I wanted it to be perfect (see I lowered my expectations...I'm growing). It was so good though. I'm a few pictures below just to get you salivating. I'm not sure it does it justice but I was still pleased with it.
Hope you all had a Sweet Weekend!
Bon Appetite!
Yummm!!
Look at that Layering!
You know you want a bite!
1 comment:
yummy!!! I want some!
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