Horrayyy..normal services are resumed...

[Newtothis]

Finally managed to buy some new testing strips today..good old Boots where would I be without you... So can now start testing again; did a random check this morning using my brothers tester - was a 5.1 🙂

Found not wanting to indulge over Christmas difficult; went to mothers house whom I'm sure is related to Mr Kipling...🙄 Would have loved a mince-buy or 2 and the box of Celebrations was tempting but I resisted... not one chocolate has passed my lips...

I did treat myself to a slice of yule log on christmas day 😱- and half a mini pork pie; the latter was definately more tastier.. I don't think I'll be having any more cake for a while; although will have a treat on my birthday.. so only 3 months to fret over

Opening the little pot of testing strips is like opening a belated present...now I'm in control...

Hope everyone had a fantastic Xmas ...keep well... Amanda x

 

[Northerner]

Sounds like you survived the pressures to conform to the carb-fest very well! 🙂 And you'll have to ask for a pork pie with candles on for your birthday, with your new-found aversion to cake! 😉

 

[KateR]

Sounds like you survived the pressures to conform to the carb-fest very well! 🙂 And you'll have to ask for a pork pie with candles on for your birthday, with your new-found aversion to cake! 😉

That's a good idea Alan. I like pork pies too!😛

 

[trophywench]

Or have fresh cream cake - the sort that's more cream than cake. I HIGHLY recommend Druckers.

When their shop was in Piccadilly Arcade (they had another at the bakery but that wasn't known to me) Adam was a lad and I was diagnosed - I swear it was only by their coffee meringues and Gateau St Honore I survived beyond diagnosis!

 

[caffeine_demon]

I swear it was only by their coffee meringues and Gateau St Honore I survived beyond diagnosis!

So - what's in gateau st honore?

 

[Casper]

So - what's in gateau st honore?

It's a dessert named after the french patron saint of bakers - base of puff pastry topped with a circle of profiteroles/caramel sugar and filled with a special cream st. honore, - ab-so-lute-ly deeeeeeelicious

 

[trophywench]

The puff pastry at the bottom is Millefeuille pastry and is approx 1/8th of an inch thick. The cream is amalgamated with strawberry puree - if they are very ripe strawbs no need to sweeten. The profiteroles are filled with unflavoured whipped cream and only go round the edge to mark the portions and Druckers actually decorate the tops of them with thinly piped dark choc swirls. A whole gateau from there is 20 portions. I know this as I bought one for the office once as we used to have cream cakes for birthdays and it actually worked out cheaper than buying individual cakes!

Meringues of course are 95% air. So although there's plenty of sugar in the egg-white there's probably quite a lot less than you think.