Random pics

Saturday, I did pretty much nothing besides sleeping, having a nap or two and cooking. Well I also spent some time on M's balcony taking random IR pictures. As I like some of them quite a bit I am going to share them with you.

The Dwarf says Hello.


Towards the sea

You can see a few more here: Zenfolio Elfefe - IR

And once I was done with IR I took a few pictures of a roaring tiger and this one of an interresting lensing effect:

Charlotte

So yesterday I was working from home and I grew incredibly frustrated with work stuff until I reached a breaking point and decided to do something else to change my mind. I then went to the supermarket and bought food when I spotted a nice pack of "boudoirs". It reminded me that it was probably 20 years since my last bite of a Charlotte cake and decided I would just prepare one.
I did peel and cut 2 ripe mangoes, 2 white peaches, pitted a handful of cherries, brought 3 egg whites into a "snow", opened 1 pack of 15cl of sour cream, prepared a large bowl of sirup, adding fresh vanilla sticks to it and half a glass of white rhum.
I mixed the egg whites with the sour cream and sugar into a nice soft mousse, soaked 1 by 1 the boudoirs in the sirup for like 1 second each and put them covering a deep dish. Then layed on it alternatively fruits, mousse and boudoirs until reaching the top covered with a final layer of boudoirs. I did keep this cold in the fridge for a few hours.
Then I used the 3 egg yokes to make a "creme patissiere" that ended up more like a custard. Mix the 3 egg yokes with 50g of sugar and 25g of flour (I didn't measure though), put 1/4 of a liter of milk to boil with some more vanilla sticks, then when it is boiling mix the eggs in and let it cook until proper texture is reached.

I used this vanilla custard to put on top of the charlotte once cooled and reversed on a plate, among with the cherries.

M and I were really happy as the cake turned out delicious ! As you can see it went down fast:

White Night

To celebrate the anniversary of Tel Aviv becoming a world heritage city, the municipality organizes a white night where you can visit art museums, see shows, etc all night long. It also matches the color of the city, and the fact that lights are on everywhere all the night. M. wanted to see it so we headed there late night. I have to say that we missed all the "artistic" activities as they seemed all mostly done when we made it to the busy areas of Tel Aviv way past midnight. However restaurants and bars were all very busy and open, people drinking and dancing everywhere; we ended up having a late supper by like 3 AM there:

and went back home tired.