But our subsequent evenings were gobbled up in other ways, and although Mary kept promising that we would watch some more Glee, that just didn’t happen until Friday.
We finally bought some treats salty snacks.
Creating home made Twixt Bars was also a necessary task.
“What are home-made Twixt Bars?” I wondered. Mary lays down a layer of shortbread, adds a no-fail caramel filling and tops the caramel off with a generous covering of chocolate.
To begin with, she told Naomi that when making these bars, timing was everything.
But we cooked, what could go wrong, did go wrong.
We doubled the recipe, only to remember that we didn’t have enough sweetened condensed milk for a double recipe. We burned the caramel so badly that there was no way to disguise what we had done and we had to begin again. And we were left with the hardest pan ever to clean. Several soakings and scrapings. And Mary had to send Leo on a grocery run for new missing ingredients. On the second try to make a perfect caramel filling for we caught it just at the hard-ball stage. It was at this point that Naomi asked, did one of you put the cup of butter in this batch. There are just some times when a person wants to go lay their head down on the table and cry.
The binge watching part of our night was a brilliant success. We decided that there would be no putting the TV programme on pause. If people had to walk in and out of the room, they would just have to catch up on the plot with their intuition.
Naomi is knitting me a new winter hat, so she knitted and she watched TV at the same time. I played the part of the evening prima donna, drinking Coke and feasting on cheddar cheese flavoured popcorn. There are some things that a person can’t make at home.
Arta
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