Personal Note: There's still a long, long trail a-winding ...

[nebroadwe]

Woke up this morning feeling as if someone had let off an air horn behind me. Yesterday evening's rehearsal was a touch stressful: we've run out of time early this year, so we're having to skim things we'd usually work through and hope that we'll all be on the same page come the day of reckoning. Eep. Fortunately we're pretty good at winging it and nobody expects us to be the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Since we're singing from the loft, we can also do a lot more frantic scrabbling about between hymns than we could if we were down in the chancel. But still -- air horns. So I wibbled around the house for a while, skipped breakfast, and began cooking, which had its usual therapeutic effect. Phew. It helps, too, that today is The Day of Desserts, which means that the house smells pleasantly of carrot cake (came out a bit lunar -- I think I need new baking powder or something) and chocolate cheesecake and panna cotta. Will be eating breakfast now, and possibly working on this year's Shakespeare filk ...

Comments

[lyrangalia]

Sorry about the Easter stress! But those desserts sound delicious.

Am I the only person in the world who thinks of carrot cake as nothing more than a delivery device for cream cheese frosting?

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the Easter stress! But those desserts sound delicious.

I try to play to my strengths at Easter. :-) This will be our nineteenth annual dinner -- I can't believe I've been hanging out with (more or less) the same group of people for nineteen years. We look back at the photographs of the second time we did this (nobody had a camera on the first one) and we're all so young ...

Am I the only person in the world who thinks of carrot cake as nothing more than a delivery device for cream cheese frosting?

Mmm, cream cheese frosting. Except that for Easter I always make the carrot cake sugar free for the no-sugar people in the group, and I have yet to find a sugar-free cream cheese frosting recipe that I actually like. If anybody has one to recommend ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

can i come over for day of desserts

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

For the making or the eating? :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i don't bake so well but i do make baklava and chocolates

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Come on over! We can share!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sounds good