New Year's Resolutions - Yes... You Can!
Can you imagine? It took me five years - FIVE YEARS! - in which every year I wrote down the good resolution (among others): " Learn to prepare a Bavarian cream ". Well - though I love to cook and bake, and prepare an excellent Mousse au chocolat, I was too anxious to make this crème bavaroise. Pretended to have too much to do, though actually I feared words like " beat the egg-cream diligently in the bain-marie to a 'rose' - you recognize that rose-state when you blow softly over the wooden spoon and there forms itself a rose " - aha! I also have high respect for 'gelatine' - in Germany you only get it in form of stiff leaves, which you have to water, then press the water out, then slide them one by one - softly, softly - into the hopefully stiff beaten egg cream. So every year I used my stays in Munich to go to the gourmet food - temple Dallmayr near the Marienplatz ( http://www.dallmayr.de/delikatessenhaus/ ) and bought it there, highly conten...