The goal is to partake of Random Lunch Challenge each Saturday (market day) but sometimes it just doesn’t get there.
Last Saturday the ball was dropped.
RLC was pipped to the post by something called The Grand Final–the play-off game between the top Australian Football League teams.
Short of the Melbourne Cup, it is pretty much the top Melbourne-specific sporting event.
So, BBQs rule the lunch hour on GF day and that’s where all the boys went off to. BBQ and football on the big screen at a friend’s.
I had other plans.
Now, I could dream up some BBQ related recipe to write about, but I will share what kept me from too high stress levels whilst the game was on tv in the background:
I made 40 lemon and quince trifles for my godson’s engagement party that night and a family lunch the next day.
I was eating my usual porridge in the morning one day a couple of weeks ago and I thought I would try some homemade quince jelly on it. Mmmmm.
The other day, indulgent as it was, I put quince jelly and leftover lemon cream (from the last marriage course session) on my porridge. Who would have thought porridge could become breakfast dessert?
I loved the combination of flavours, so my brain started working on the dessert for the party and lunch.
Something like… trifle.
Lemon and quince trifle
I cut rounds of sponge cake, then built layers of cake sprinkled with my Aunt’s homemade Limoncello, my homemade quince jelly, homemade lemon curd (see the “A’peel of Lemons” post in Bounty of the month) made with my chooks’ eggs and a neighbour’s lemons, and lemon-zest infused sweetened whipped cream, topped with a sprinkle of gingernut crumbs.
Lemon treasure with jewels of quince jelly.
Even Quality Controller who hates trifle finally relented and had one and liked it. He will deny this to his mother, of course!
So, despite no RLC and a somewhat subdued atmosphere at favoured team being pipped to the post themselves, the trifle seemed to be a winner. Goal!!!
And anyway, the crowds at both events were well behaved and enjoyed themselves.
Celebrating a new team developing, a birthday, and family.
Good relationships and good food.
Win Win.
And they were yum! Good idea for all the lemons and the quinces still in the freezer.
Quince jelly and lemon cream – what bliss! I am really drooling over this one Maggie. A great read. That trifle sounds supurb. Never mind the Grand Final I’d prefer the trifle. What talent you have for producing heavenly food. Gabrielle.
Thank you for your encouraging words. I do love working out flavours and practicing ideas and it is fun and tasty when they work! Quince and lemon are up there in the favourites list.