The Friday Five for May 10, 2019

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1. What made you smile this week?

2. What ingredients make a perfect Saturday?

3. What is the best thing you ever had for dessert? Share the memory or the recipe.

4. What is your favorite memory of your mom, or your favorite thing about being a mom?

5. What are your plans for the summer (or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere)?

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[goddess47]

Fun!

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[ex_flameandsong751]

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[scaratch]

1. What made you smile this week?

Friday made me smile. Knowing it was the weekend and I could have a rest!


2. What ingredients make a perfect Saturday?

Getting out into nature, doing something creative - writing or drawing or even daydreaming, having some alone time, and a cheeky glass of wine and some chocolate at the end of the day...with a film!

3. What is the best thing you ever had for dessert? Share the memory or the recipe.

Peppermint Crisp fridge tart - this is a South African favourite. You could probably find equivalents of the ingredients. Google them if you're interested. It's worth it! Yummy yumm!!!


Peppermint Crisp fridge tart
Serves: 8
Cooking Time: 20 mins plus overnight

INGREDIENTS
2 packets tennis biscuits
1 x 380g tin caramel, softened
250ml (1 cup) fresh cream, lightly beaten
1 x 100g slab peppermint crisp chocolate, grated

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Grease a 30cm x 15cm tart dish.

2. Arrange a layer of biscuits in the base of the dish.

3. Mix together the caramel and creamand spoon a 1cm-deep layer on top of the biscuits.

4. Sprinkle a third of the chocolate on top of the caramel layer.

5. Repeat for another 2 layers or until all the ingredients are used, ending with a caramel layer topped with chocolate.

6. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours (preferably overnight) before serving.



4. What is your favorite memory of your mom, or your favorite thing about being a mom?

My favourite memory of my mum is mainly of how creative and clever she was. I was always in awe of how effortless she made everything look. From making mosaics over our old fireplace, and garden table, to DIY house jobs, painting, making clothes and handbags. And so, so, so much more! I wish I had half of her talent.


5. What are your plans for the summer (or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere)?

Spending time with family. Going to work some days. And visiting Cornwall too. Hope to make some arty things, and do some gardening.

[sallymn]

Questions from thefridayfive...

1. What made you smile this week? Despite the pressure and chaos at work, we got to laugh and joke a bit. And one of the guys – fairly new, and deeply thankful for the help we give him – bought chocolate doughnuts all round.

2. What ingredients make a perfect Saturday? Nice weather – not too hot, not too cold - some time relaxing in the garden, lovely music, something to read, maybe even a bit of writing...

3. What is the best thing you ever had for dessert? Share the memory or the recipe. Oh, definitely the syllabub I mentioned in earky 2018. We've had it once more since then (it is not exactly the most health-conscious of desserts) and it is absolute heaven in a bowl.

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I admit that classic old-fashioned baked apple stuffed with sultanas and served with custard isn't that far behind, along with old-fashioned rice pudding made with tinned milk: both of these are comfort food and I suspect the taste is laced with nostalgia, but the sort of nostalgia that does taste sooooo good….

4. What is your favorite memory of your mom, or your favorite thing about being a mom? A barbecue when Sis and I bought our house: she was cooking steaks on the barbie and it started pouring with rain, but she and my eldest brother stayed out with a brollie and kept cooking. They were stewed rather than barbecued, but delicious.

5. What are your plans for the summer (or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere)? Nothing extraordinary, I'm working through my last year of work and any major plans will be for next year.

[mesotablar]

my answers! sorry, no recipe included