Made sauce the other day, bought all the ingredients. Today time was spent making Chicago-style pizza dough, which involves corn meal and a lot of butter. Between rises, the dough was rolled out, spread with a layer of soft butter, then rolled up and rolled out -- laminated like a croissant.
While that was in progress, I finished baking the two large tart shells to accept the large amount of chocolate pastry cream I had laying around. Just to kick it up a notch, I melted a dark chocolate bar with a little butter, then poured that into the shells to set before spreading in the cream, just to give it another layer of texture.
The actual dessert served was chocolate "ravioli" with cherry "marinara" and powdered sugar "cheese". It was good, but way too much work.
BREAKFAST: 9:45am, good yogurt with honey, homemade vanilla extract and cashews, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACKING: 12-4pm, snippets of moz, sausage, onion & olives, a few prosciutto canapes, water, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Oddly enough, I spent so much mental energy prepping dinner that I forgot to eat lunch. Got hungry around the time guests were supposed to show up.
PM SNACK: 4:30pm, large wedge of chocolate tart, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Waiting for guests to arrive.
DINNER: 5:45pm, several slices of Chicago-style pizza, several ham & pickle canapes, chocolate raviolis, a few mini canolis, 2 glasses of wine, 1.75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Edie really enjoyed the party, interacting with several people at once, hangin' like one of the fellahs.
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