Crazy Jane Makes Linzer Tort
Oct. 14th, 2007 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraSo-o, I had to get up at the crack of dawn this morning because the Little Store is hosting the Diana book signing today and I volunteered to make hors d'oeuvres – shrimp in lemon peri-peri sauce and raspberry chipotle linzer tort. And I don't know about you but I hate doing anything when I first wake up. It is a metabolic requirement that I sit in front of a window for two hours, chugging caffeine, gnashing my teeth and watching the day turn color. (Right now it's a kind of robin's egg blue, two minutes ago it was a lemony shimmer.)
Also I got the news Someone I Really Don't Like's husband just got this awesome promotion and now makes a yearly salary commensurate with Idi Aman's secret Swiss bank account. And I mean, it is just so fucking unfair, I simply loathe this person. By rights locusts should be descending at this very moment to nibble away her ears and nose, blood should be running out of her Brita water purifier.
And I'm wondering why I didn't marry someone rich and powerful when I still had youth and beauty to barter with. It's not as though I didn't have the opportunity.
But the truth of the matter is that my whole life has been one long rehearsal for this very moment, Crazy Jane Contemplates the Sunrise:
A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.
I like this poem better than the far more famous What dark beast… though perhaps not quite as much as But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
Recipe for raspberry chipotle linzer tort:
1 cup Flour
1 cup Powdered sugar
1 cup blanched, ground almonds
1/2-cup soft butter; soft
1/2 tsp Ground cinnamon
¼ tsp hazelnut extract
1 cup raspberry chipotle (Peppers is best; Robert Rothschild's will do in a pinch)
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix all ingredients except preserves until crumbly. Press 2/3 of mixture into ungreased square pan, 9x9x2 inches. Spread with raspberry mixture. Sprinkle with remaining crumbs. Press gently into raspberry mixture. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until light golden brown. Cool completely; cut into bars.
The lemon peri-peri shrimp are EZ – you just marinate the shrimp for two hours at room temperature in the sauce (Gallito's lemon peri-peri is the best; Nando's is the easiest to find but they use too fucking much rosemary!) and then grill for three minutes.
Also I got the news Someone I Really Don't Like's husband just got this awesome promotion and now makes a yearly salary commensurate with Idi Aman's secret Swiss bank account. And I mean, it is just so fucking unfair, I simply loathe this person. By rights locusts should be descending at this very moment to nibble away her ears and nose, blood should be running out of her Brita water purifier.
And I'm wondering why I didn't marry someone rich and powerful when I still had youth and beauty to barter with. It's not as though I didn't have the opportunity.
But the truth of the matter is that my whole life has been one long rehearsal for this very moment, Crazy Jane Contemplates the Sunrise:
A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.
I like this poem better than the far more famous What dark beast… though perhaps not quite as much as But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
Recipe for raspberry chipotle linzer tort:
1 cup Flour
1 cup Powdered sugar
1 cup blanched, ground almonds
1/2-cup soft butter; soft
1/2 tsp Ground cinnamon
¼ tsp hazelnut extract
1 cup raspberry chipotle (Peppers is best; Robert Rothschild's will do in a pinch)
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix all ingredients except preserves until crumbly. Press 2/3 of mixture into ungreased square pan, 9x9x2 inches. Spread with raspberry mixture. Sprinkle with remaining crumbs. Press gently into raspberry mixture. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until light golden brown. Cool completely; cut into bars.
The lemon peri-peri shrimp are EZ – you just marinate the shrimp for two hours at room temperature in the sauce (Gallito's lemon peri-peri is the best; Nando's is the easiest to find but they use too fucking much rosemary!) and then grill for three minutes.
