I am tired.
In the past week, I have stayed up all night squabbling with my roommate about stupid things like whether to wake up in time for breakfast tomorrow and which lecturer was more irritating. I've also locked myself out of my room thrice in the same day because I keep forgetting to take my card key with me. I have watched more movies in a week than I would have in half a year if I was back home. I have also rescued a drunk friend - it was the first time I would see firsthand what alcohol and heartache could do to people.
It also means I've been horribly lacking of sleep. Now, I don't actually mind, because I've been doing things I actually like doing with people I actually like hanging out with. It's been a rough few weeks what with having to pick drunkards out of puddles of puke and losing a friend. I mean not only have I crawled under a table to wipe vomit out of my friend's bright red hair (I'd do it again, she's such a darling) but I have also been alienated because I started hanging out and grew attached to someone I just met.
Yeah. I was kept in the dark about that until I confronted him and for several reasons I won't mention, came to an agreement that I was to be a stranger to him from now on.
...
I can't even begin to describe the pain of that.
So, annoyed and drowsy, I trundled into class last Friday and pulled together a cake of sorts from my friend's recipe. The cake part didn't work so well - it came out looking like a tar road. I am still not entirely sure if it was a glitch in the recipe or due to my own sleepiness but then I scrapped it and made another cake which I soaked in some coffee syrup and covered in some chocolate mousse and then drowned in chocolate ganache a few days later. Basically, it was full on chocolate on chocolate. Exactly what I bloody well needed.
In the past week, I have stayed up all night squabbling with my roommate about stupid things like whether to wake up in time for breakfast tomorrow and which lecturer was more irritating. I've also locked myself out of my room thrice in the same day because I keep forgetting to take my card key with me. I have watched more movies in a week than I would have in half a year if I was back home. I have also rescued a drunk friend - it was the first time I would see firsthand what alcohol and heartache could do to people.
It also means I've been horribly lacking of sleep. Now, I don't actually mind, because I've been doing things I actually like doing with people I actually like hanging out with. It's been a rough few weeks what with having to pick drunkards out of puddles of puke and losing a friend. I mean not only have I crawled under a table to wipe vomit out of my friend's bright red hair (I'd do it again, she's such a darling) but I have also been alienated because I started hanging out and grew attached to someone I just met.
Yeah. I was kept in the dark about that until I confronted him and for several reasons I won't mention, came to an agreement that I was to be a stranger to him from now on.
...
I can't even begin to describe the pain of that.
So, annoyed and drowsy, I trundled into class last Friday and pulled together a cake of sorts from my friend's recipe. The cake part didn't work so well - it came out looking like a tar road. I am still not entirely sure if it was a glitch in the recipe or due to my own sleepiness but then I scrapped it and made another cake which I soaked in some coffee syrup and covered in some chocolate mousse and then drowned in chocolate ganache a few days later. Basically, it was full on chocolate on chocolate. Exactly what I bloody well needed.
For
the chocolate mousse:
150g dark chocolate
150g milk chocolate
5 eggs
3 tbsp sugar
125ml cream
50g sugar
For the mousse
Roughly chop the chocolate and melt over a double boiler. Remove from the heat.
Roughly chop the chocolate and melt over a double boiler. Remove from the heat.
Separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar over a hot bain-marie until foamy and the sugar has dissolved.
Whip the chilled cream until semi-stiff. Beat the egg whites with the 50g sugar until they form stiff peaks.
Add the egg yolk mixture to the chocolate
and stir in with a whisk. Place the whipped cream on top of the chocolate
mixture and quickly mix in with the whisk before the mixture sets. Carefully
fold in the beaten egg white.
Pour into glasses or fill a layer cake. Either way, just eat it, preferably chilled, with more chocolate.
