of late, i've been inventing all sorts of variations on the dessert above. it's a kind of trifle or parfait or something like that...creamy, fruity, meringuey. decadent. i've made it both with a bit of sweetened condensed milk in the cream for extra richness and without. i've made it with peaches, cherries (from our own cherry tree, combined with a dash of vanilla vodka), strawberries (from our own garden). i've used bits of a sponge cake in between the layers and i've used crunched up meringues. it's pretty much yummy no matter what you do. or so they always say.
because although i love to make desserts, i can really take them or leave them as far as eating them goes. and that's it, that's secret #9--love to make desserts, don't so much like eating them (tho' you wouldn't know that to look at me).
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and yes, i admit this secret is a bit lame, but it's because i'm in a mild depression over managing to leave the house without the camera today (it's wednesday as i write, at least for a few more minutes). and then i kept stalking seeing a swedish guy and his aggressively perfect family in tivoli who was taking shots in perfect light from odd angles with a leica M8, which only further depressed me.
i'll try to be back on form tomorrow...in the meantime, enjoy the pretty pictures of the dessert. :-)
