Thursday 24 July 2008

Love's gone

Today my lover finally decided to go back to his wife, instead of coming for me, whom he love more than Romeo loved Juliet. It is very strange and I don't understand that. He's going back to die now. He knows that too. It's a remarkable choice I think. I feel like I'm dying too now.

Running for blueberry pie

Went for a short run (c. 2.5 k, 20 min). It's a week since I was in the Med. Miss swimming every day, but I really have to continue to hone my body. I did 20 sit-ups afterward and my goal is to do 50 easily.
Otherwise, today, I have only been cooking, made a really nice créme pâtissiére. So everybody interested in some serious cooking... here's my blueberry pie. Good enough to launch a thousand ships for (or at least one little small missile)

Blueberry pie
125 g room warm butter
1 dl sugar
1 egg

Mix those

4 dl flour

Add the flour and let rest in in fridge for 1 hour

Créme pâtissiére
2½ dl boiling milk
0.75 dl sugar
2 egg yolks
0.25 dl flour
1 egg

In a thick bottomed pan, pour sugar and 1 egg yolk. Whisk. Add the
other egg yolk. Whisk until its white (use electric whisker). Sift the flour onto the sugar-eggs. Whisk (use ordinary whisk). Put one egg into it. Whisk forcefully. (until you think you're gonna die, or at least until you think your arm is coming off. Then you whisk some more.) Pour the boiling milk, a little at the time, into it. This pan, with eggs and milk now, put it into another pan filled with boiling water. And keep on stirring until it is thick and creamy.

If you're very clever, you don't need the water bath, but water bath will prevent the egg yolks from splitting. If they do: throw it away and start anew! This is no Sauce Bearnaise which you could save.


When the creme is thick and creamy: pour into a pot and add c. 25 g butter to melt into it. Let it all cool in fridge.

Prepare the pie form:
smear butter into a pie form and put the dough you've made into it. Bake in 250 degree oven for 10 min. Cool.

When the pie form is cool: add the creme, put on about 1 liter of blueberries and sift powder sugar on. Voila! Finished!