And this is how it goes in term of food. The main part is painting some boiled eggs in all sorts of colours. This tradition is lost in England so I've ordered my paint in Germany and a good friend of mine sent me the Mercedes of paints. Never had metallic eggs for Easter before but there is a start for everything, right?
You can imagine it took me one good hour at least plus cleaning the kitchen afterwards.
Next was the boeuf salad. This is a traditional dish in Romania and we like it a lot so I've agreed I'll do it.
You start with a mayonnaise. I definitely don't like the Tesco's one, and I don't like using the mixer simply because you lose the connection with the food. So if you want a really special mayonnaise, do it by hand.
It will take a while obviously, in order to sloooowwwly incorporate the oil.
Then you've got to cut the boiled vegetables and the chicken breast into billions of small cubes.
And voila, three hours later, here is the main one:
and the leftovers made a smaller one - with my mom's decoration pattern on top, which used to terrify us when we were kids.
The power of early conditioning.
At this point in time I got fed up with taking pictures, so next we'll go straight into the final phase of the deserts.
They are a special kind of tarts called 'pasca' - one is filled with a custard type of cream, the other with a 'chocolate style' cream.
The pastry was not high enough for the second one but one can only learn for the next time. Otherwise they've been absolutely DIVINE ( you can guess it's not much left today).
The main course, and this was the easiest part : lamb and potatoes.
My diet went completely down the drain. 5000 calories per day, yesterday and today.
And please don't ask anything about the knitting - I am still recovering after all this food...
I need to assembly all parts together just to see how it fits - I have a feeling that the sleeves might be a bit short. I want to have it ready for our Easter on Sunday, so everything else is on a (very) slow burner.
