We celebrated spring with chocolate angel food cake and tea, surrounded by small arrangements of hyacinth, tulips and daffodils. Laurie uses the leftover egg whites from making gelato to make angel food cake and adds dark chocolate and chocolate chips — she calls it her “angel/devil” cake. I don’t care much for angel food cake, but when it’s made with chocolate, by devil it’s good.
Sunset via drive-by.
Laurie made batches of delicious chocolate chip cookies. For a while it looked like they were going to go on forever. If you have not used SILPAT cooking mats, they are wonderful — nothing sticks to them.
To improve his modeling techniques, Guildenstern has taken to reading Vogue and copying the models’ expressions. The blue kitty and Leo were in playful moods the other day.
Tulips and crocus.
When we left early in the morning there was a mist that gave the trees a ghostly look. As we headed out to Paradise Hills, the mist turned into a thick fog, which is quite rare for the Albuquerque area. When we got to Paradise Hills, a couple hundred feet above the Rio Grande Valley, the sun was making its first appearance above the fog blanketed the valley below.
Giving new meaning to the phrase “one tough cookie” or a gang of tough cookies, in this case, this plate exploded as the cookies were being thawed out in the microwave. Curiously, the plate pieces were too hot to touch, while the cookies themselves were still cold.
Laurie in her biker style — Harley Davidson leather jacket, boots and leopard print sweater.
Guildenstern was pointing out the obvious while Laurie was painting the catio. Rosencrantz wasn’t so sure about the obvious.
Our first blooms!
Off Center & Not Even 