Happiness is...?

Post by **Nav** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:00 pm

dANdeLION wrote:Meeting a hot chick online

So happiness is extremely unlikely, then?

Post by **The Leper Fairy** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:45 pm

Happiness is getting mail from friends who went off to college

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:12 pm

Happiness is hot chocolate on a crisp fall afternoon.

Post by **danlo** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:26 pm

Happiness is going to a bar-b-que to see your god-daughter that you haven't seen in close to a year!

Post by **Cate** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:07 pm

duchess of malfi wrote:Happiness is fresh peaches, pears, and apples from the orchard across the road.

Ahhhhh....and making pear preserves and biscuits and having them at once!!

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:53 pm

Happiness would be eating Cate's cooking.

Post by **Cate** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:11 pm

and Happiness would be cookin it for ya.

come on over.

If you leave now, you could be here around midnight.....

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:42 pm

Give me ten hours or so and I'll join you

Happiness is discovering my fears about Runes of the Earth being disappointing are unfounded

Happiness is also sending Christmas pudding to someone who's never tasted it (soon, I promise

)

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:39 am

Happiness is finding out what sort of mysterious food Christmas pudding is!

Post by **Cate** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 2:35 am

And even greater happiness is getting some Christmas pudding. .......hint. hint.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:25 pm

Christmas pudding

Cate, I guess I could send you some Christmas pudding. You need custard though. I promised I'd send Claire some, but I haven't yet

Post by **Myste** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:33 pm

CovenantJr wrote:Christmas pudding

I'll never understand why Brits call something that is obviously a cake, a pudding.

The pouring-brandy-on-it-and-setting-it-on-fire-part is cool, though.

This

is pudding.

Cate, you can often find imported Christmas puddings in the better grocery stores at holiday times. Do you have a Trader Joe's or a Zupan's or a Bread & Circus near you?

Happiness is... a really excellent supermarket. And pudding, no matter what it looks like. And custard. And biscuits & gravy. And biscuits with custard. And bantering with CovJr about the various weirdnesses of each other's national cuisine.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:39 pm

Myste wrote:I'll never understand why Brits call something that is obviously a cake, a pudding.

Cake? Cake?! You eat it in a bowl, covered with custard. If you ate cake in a bowl, covered with custard, you'd get some funny looks.

I'll never understand why Yanks call something that is obviously a pie lid a biscuit.

Myste wrote:This

is pudding.

That looks more like trifle.

Post by **Myste** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:58 pm

I thought trifle was custard?

And how dare you tell me what I can and can't put custard on! If I want to eat my cake covered in custard I'll do it!

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:01 pm

Myste wrote:I thought trifle was custard?

Trifle:

Custard:

Post by **Myste** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:11 pm

So trifle is cake in a bowl with custard on it???

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:17 pm

Typical trifle ingredients:

Trifle sponges, Cherry jam , Ratafia biscuits, Sherry, Bananas, peeled and sliced, Lemon zest and juice, Cherries, Milk, Eggs, Caster sugar, Double cream, whipped, Glace cherries, Nuts.

A cake with custard? Pish and nonsense!

Post by **Myste** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:36 pm

Don't give me that out-of-context ingredient nonsense.

I was going to ask incredulously why British people eat sponges. Then I checked with your Delia person, and realized that the sponges are sponge cakes.

Hoist with your own petard, my friend. (I hope Delia doesn't mind being called a petard.)

For anyone who wants it, I have shamelessly borrowed Delia Smith's recipe for trifle off her website. Happiness is making, then eating, trifle. Or so I've heard.

Delia Smith's Traditional Trifle

This is a real trifle made with proper custard – a bit extravagant but well worth it.
Serves 6-8
3 egg yolks
1 pint (570 ml) double cream
1 oz (25 g) caster sugar
1 level teaspoon cornflour
5 trifle sponge cakes
2 oz (50 g) flaked almonds, lightly toasted
some raspberry jam
2 fl oz (55 ml) sherry
8 oz (225 g) fresh or frozen raspberries
2 small bananas, peeled and sliced thinly

Break the sponge cakes in pieces and spread a little raspberry jam on each piece. Then put them into a large glass bowl and sprinkle the raspberries and sherry over them, giving everything a good stir to soak up the sherry.
To make the custard, heat 1/2 pint (275 ml) of the double cream in a small saucepan. Blend the egg yolks, sugar and cornflour together thoroughly in a basin, and when the cream is hot, pour it over the egg mixture, stirring the whole time. Now return the custard to the saucepan and stir over a very low heat until thick, them remove it and allow to cool. Slice the bananas, sprinkle them in amongst the raspberries and pour the custard over the sponge cakes. Whip up the remaining 1/2 pint (275 ml) of cream and spread it over the top. Decorate with the flaked almonds. Cover and chill for 3 or 4 hours before serving.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:53 pm

Note that it doesn't say "Get cake. Add custard."

Post by **DukkhaWaynhim** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:42 pm

Why would you ruin a perfectly good trifle by putting yucky fruit into it?

I think of fruit as messy, seeded, pulpy, mealy-crunchy fibrous vitamins.

My favorite fruit is a cherry Pop-Tart

For me, happiness is going down the highway with my wife in my new silver 2005 Chrysler 300C.

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