Never again

[resonant]

The list of Things That If I Mention Them You Are Encouraged To Shoot Me For My Own Good has expanded:

1. Church cookbook
   
2. Custom Christmas cards
   
3. Any supposedly fun luncheon activity that starts with a blank jigsaw puzzle

We probably have impending drama at the church office -- Pastor Vague has exhausted the patience of people far more patient than me (almost everybody is more patient than me) -- but in the meantime, potlucks and supposedly fun luncheon activities go on.

Tomorrow I get to buy twelve pounds of ground beef and make four tres leches cakes!

All this civic-mindedness is cutting into my smut-writing time, damn it.

Comments

[sara]

Never mind the smut, I want a post about how you're going to make four tres leches cakes from twelve pounds of ground beef. That makes that old water-into-wine stunt look like child's play.

[jimpage363]

Hey, I wondered that, too. But she is pretty talented.

[reginagiraffe]

LOL! Me, too!

That's going to be some damn heavy cakes!

[resonant]

I likes 'em substantial.

[sara]

That it would be. That it would be.

(I am now envisioning my Aunt Joanie's legendarily dense chocolate cakes -- which can withstand fairly substantial explosions, I know because she was more liberal about letting her kids have fireworks than my parents were and my cousins had some fun with cake and GI Joes and black cats, one weekend in the late 80s -- interlayered with a sort of caramel meatloaf. Mmmm.)

[resonant]

I'm laughing at the idea of caramel meatloaf, but also weirdly intrigued.

[sara]

Wouldn't that be an enchanting thing to pull out of your carry-and-serve bag at the next potluck?

[krait]

Hahaha, that was the thing that my attention locked onto, as well! Beefcakes? Must know more...

[resonant]

Oh, no, it was taco salads and then cakes. And we ran out of beef, too.

[lastscorpion]

OMG four Tres Leches Cakes? How many people are coming to this potluck? A hundred?

Good luck with everything!

Am I ever glad I'm not in your shoes.... Sorry!

[resonant]

I'm expecting about sixty. Maybe it's only three? I'll have to check my notes.

I'm just glad I'm done coloring those stupid puzzles. The markers made me goofy. er.

[mific]

I enjoy these bizarre church epistles, especially in contrast with the smut-writing. I once got a packet of blank jigsaw puzzles and wrote letters on them for friends. Until they asked me not to as it was driving them nuts trying to reconstruct the letters so as to read anything. Ah, those days before email. Hope the Tres Leches cakes were heavy on the rum or brandy. Or you could just drink that so as to cope with Pastor Vague.

[resonant]

I remember seeing those blank jigsaw puzzles in catalogs, but i never bought any. These were the huge version of those -- intended for floor puzzles for little kids, actually.

It went pretty well, even without any booze. And boy am I ever glad it's over. I have an entire all-church mailing to do tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to it because by comparison with this, it's so very peaceful.

[raveninthewind]

*passes you a virtual Cosmo to aid in recovery from work "fun"*

In all seriousness--share your tres leches recipe, please. I've been looking for a proven recipe among people I know.

[resonant]

I used this Alton Brown recipe, but it didn't turn out quite right -- the cake flour measurement is given by weight, which makes perfect sense as the stuff settles so much that it's hard to get a consistent measurement with cups, but the church kitchen doesn't have a scale, so I suspect I got the flour measurement wrong. The cakes were flatter and eggier than they should have been, and they only absorbed about half the glaze.

[raveninthewind]

I had a bad experience myself with a recipe I found online, hence the search for a known "goodie". :D