A very difficult dessert

Her I weekenden lykkedes det at få den første sleepover arrangeret. Det var Teresa der fik æren (som altid vinder hun foran drengene med syvmileskridt, når det kommer til sociale færdigheder) og vi havde aftalt at bedste veninden Julia skulle tage med Teresa hjem fra skole. Det blev det så ikke helt til eftersom skolen var lukket, men Julia kom alligevel. Teresa tog op til Julia for at kælke I deres indkørsel (de bor op ad en bakke I en skov) mens Kristian og drengene lagde vejen forbi mit arbejde for at hente mig, med en tur I det lokale asiatiske supermarked inkluderet. Det er stort og der er godt nok mange mærkelige ting. Vi blev fristet af sort/hvide mochis med ananassmag. De smagte absurd dårligt, så de får ikke lov til at ryge I indkøbskurven en anden gang. Knap så fristet blev vi af slagterafdelingens udvalg af andetarme, grisetæer og hønsefødder. Men stor var Lucas fryd da han spottede en pakke marie kiks:

This weekend we managed to have the first kid sleep over. Teresa had the honor (which is no surprise as she is far beyond the boys when it comes to social skills) and we agreed to bring Julia home after school. That did not happen quite as expected as school was closed for the day. Instead Teresa went to Julias place for the afternoon where they could use the sleighs in the driveway (they live on a hill in the forest). Kristian and the boys then stopped by my workplace to pick me up and we also included a trip to the local Asian supermarket. It is quite big and there are a lot of weird foods there. We were tempted by black and white ice-cream mochis with pineapple. Yikes, they tasted bad, so they will not placed in the shopping again. We were NOT tempted in the butcher department where you could get duck intestines, pigs toes and hens feet. But Luca got very excited at the sight of “Marie biscuits”:

For at tøserne ikke skulle kede sig alt for meget tænkte jeg at de kunne få frit slag I køkkenet og kreere en dessert til Julias forældre, der ville komme forbi til middag lørdag aften. Der blev tænkt længe. Og grundigt. Teresa er ikke så glad for chokolade. Julia er ikke så glad for noget, der er med crème eller fløde. Derudover VILLE de lave en svær dessert. Hm……. Valget endte pa cannolis, der burde se sådan her ud: cannoli

To keep the girls busy I promised that they got to create a dessert for Saturday nights dinner with Julias parents. They thought long and hard. Teresa is not a big fan of chocolate. Julia does not fancy custard or anything with whipped cream. And the dessert HAD to be really difficult to make. Hm…..The choice ended up with cannolis, that should ultimately look like this: cannoli

Jeg troede at man bare bagte cannolis I små cirkler på en bageplade og så foldede dem over et tykt skaft, når de var færdige. Næh nej. De skal steges. Foldet over et cannoli rør! Det er ikke noget vi lige ligger inde med I køkkenskufferne, så vi tog en tur I whole foods for at finde noget cannoli pasta, der kan bruges som nødløsnings form. Her ses Teresa, der skovler sne på sine støvler, så det ville se ud som om hun var begravet op over støvlekanten. Busted!:

I thought you could just make cannolis in little circles in the oven and then fold them while over a shaft while they were still hot. Nope! They need to be fried while on a cannoli tube! We do not really have this kind of equipment in our humble kitchen drawers and ended up going to Whole Foods to see if they might have cannoli pasta, that could be used as an emergency tube replacement. Here is Teresa shoveling snow over her boots, to make it look like a lot more snow. Busted!

Og her er så resultatet efter alle køkken anstrengelserne:

And here is the result of all the hard work:

 

Det er vel ikke nødvendigt at fortælle at Whole Foods ikke lå inde med den rigtige pasta og at cannoli dej bliver helt ballonagtig,når det bliver stegt. Men de smagte heldigvis OK.

I guess it is not necessary to tell that Whole Foods did not carry the right pasta and that cannoli dough gets all puffy when deep fried. But the taste was OK, luckily.

Det blev også til et par ture udenfor I sneen:

We also went out in the snow: