our friends who live on tate street are hosting a christmas party and each of us has been given a job so we can all come together tonight and feast on barbecued meats, whole fish, cocktails, cheese, salads, tapas and more!
now one thing i have always wanted to chef but have never felt i could do, was to bake a lime tart. i don't know why i'm so intimidated by the lime tart. maybe because it's one of my fave desserts to order at a restaurant. anyway, after aquiring a 'loose-bottomed tart pan' (long story but it involves a K tantrum, a last minute trip into Claremont to find the RIGHT tart pan, purchasing a $500 knife set and home again) we began our mission to bake!
by this time it's about 9pm already (daylight savings can make a night slip away!) and i realised that i had missed a vital lime tart ingredient....icing sugar. i am notoriously horrendous at reading recipes which is another reason why i never usually bake such high-class dishes! so at 10pm at night, K and i pull our sneakers on, jump on our bikes and ride off into the night to the closest 24hr supermarket and buy some icing sugar.
i am so besotted by the lime tart that never once did my enthusiasm drop. sure, i complained. sure, K had mini-tantrums. but our dedication to the tart was unwavering!
after making the pastry we decided to take it a notch down and switch from music to television. bad choice. we ended up 'Baking with Kevin Bacon' as some very low-qual tele-movie was on. about how he had been hypnotised and saw dead people...i'm not even going to dignify it with giving it a synopsis. it was shit. K was hooked. our lime tart progressed.
12:30am and lime tart was complete. Kevin Bacon bid us goodnight and we went to bed feeling wholesome, satisfied, and in love!
i will post the recipe next time. it's super easy and apart from all of the 'waiting' 'cooling' 'baking' that comes with pastry - it's a delight to make. especially if you love cooking!
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