Oh Fudge

Due to the lack of space and the horrible heat and humidity (plus the fact it's taken me ages to get sushi boxes - they arrive next week) I've decided to experiment with fudge.
Quite a few failures but among them one success (yey!).
Today so far I've managed to make caramel and greasy fudge(not yey!) and am having a brief break before I soldier on, heartened by the successful dark chocolate fudge I made yesterday. Although not heartened by the 2kilos of fudge frosting I made the day before :(
I will report later....

Well, this is later.
One lot in the bin, and two vanilla caramels.
Not a roaring success.

Have made a chocolate mousse and ice cream to console myself.

Will continue tomorrow.

I Miss You

Tomorrow it will be seven years since my dad died. I still can't beleive he's gone, I miss him so much it hurts.

My dad was many things; to name just a few: he was a good man, he was kind, incredibly clever, wise and a bit of a nutter. In a good way.

He was also an inventor, he invented loads of stuff. He was like a combination of Albert Einstein (mainly in looks) and Maguiver.

Since I've started making my own chocolate I miss him even more, he'd be having a fantastic time thinking up recipes and how to do stuff.
I'm positive that with a paperclip, rubber band and a piece of string he could make me not only the best melter on earth but any peice of equipment I could want.

Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating.
He'd probably need two paperclips and some strong glue.

Update

I havn't posted recently because there isn't really much interesting to report.
Still working on the chocolate sushi, the sugar free chocolate and some other ideas I have.
The weather is hot and humid so not conducive to chocolate making and as I am still working in the house I'm limited by space and therefore the type of work I can do.
Sigh.
Hopefully in the not too distant future I'll be able to move into a little unit built on to the house and then be able to work properly.

Mrs Beeton I am, I am

Today I've been baking. Lots.
The Husband can't have any carbohydrates apart from corn, which is a really big pain in the bum.
So today decided to spoil him and made gluten and sugar free cinammon biscuits (cookies if you are american) and almond and vanilla. They came out rather nice actually.
I also made cheese and olive muffins, they are still in the oven so don't know if they will be edible. Cross fingers etc etc.

Here is a picture of some gluten free tatlets I made him, they look rather 'rustic' but tasted great:




I'm still working on the sushi, it's coming along nicely and if all goes well should be finished this week.