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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Stray Cat Ballou, Cat Ballou, She's mean and evil through and through

Yesterday we didn’t do anything except go for a walk and then lounge on the couch and do some big catching up on TV. I made the most excellent mousse ever – recipe follows, and took it to Di’s. She made tea and we sat and talked.
I have just spent the better part of the afternoon searching for the recipe for coconut Easter eggs. I knew I had seen it this week, so I went through all the magazines and other books for what seemed like hours. In the end I remembered I had bought 2 tins of condensed milk on special and that the recipe must have been in the Roelf Vos catalogue. I had, of course, every catalogue except that one. Thankfully the supermarket still had some so I have 2 now in case.
We are having cat wars. There is a stray cat that keeps coming next door and staying there. The Labradors bark at the cat. They don’t bark at the cat who lives there. I have had to put up the shade cloth barrier, stapling it to the fence. Peri is bereft as she spends quite a lot of the day lying down near the fence, looking through to next door. She is going to have to get used to it, as if they bark, people will complain. She is inside now and I hope by tomorrow she will be happier.

Best Ever Chocolate Mousse
100 g dark chocolate
50 g butter
2 eggs separated
1 tspn caster sugar
Melt butter in a double boiler over a low heat. Whisk in the yolks and then the butter in small pieces. Whip the egg whites till soft peaks form and then sprinkle sugar over the top and beat till silky. Fold in very thoroughly. Refrigerate.
I added 2 tspn coffee to the chocolate and then covered the set mousse with whipped cream also flavoured with coffee, as Di likes the mocha flavour.