anyone feeling zesty?

Date: 28 April 2005 11:36:38

I have a zested hand. And I blame the $2.87 zester that I bought tonight. Never skimp on zesters people. Never! Cheap zesters don't have the precision blades required to er... zest lemons without zesting hands.

But anyway, why would I be zesting? Well I needed to make lemon butter. Because I had eight egg yolks in the fridge that needed using. And lemon butter is the only thing I could think of that had eight egg yolks in it.

So why would yay have 8 egg yolks in the fridge without their whites? Because she made a rather spectacular dessert (pictured below) that required 8 egg whites. Now before anyone accuses me of having mouldy raspberries, they are merely frosty because I had to buy frozen ones and the photo was taken before they defrosted. I don't know what the raspberry situation is like elsewhere but I saw 150g punnets of raspberries for $10 today. And the frozen ones are actually very good. I highly recommend them. The blueberries were frozen too come to think of it. But the strawberries were fresh!! And the coulis (you can see it poking out between layers) was raspberry and cointreau.