Procrastinating

Work has been hounding me these past few weeks and I can say with finality that I. Am. Tired.   So even if I've been busting my butt at work, they still keep on coming!  They won't stop!  I actually have a deadline on Tuesday and I'm not nearly halfway done.  I said to myself that I'll work on it this weekend, but it's Sunday now and I only got to work on a smidge.  Sigh.

I really don't like working on weekends and to procrastinate, I made this:

A mixed berry curd torte. 

I got a tray of really cute organic eggs at SM Supermarket, expensive at Php 120/dozen - I usually get my eggs from Bounty Fresh at around Php 70/dozen - but what the hey. 

I thought a really nice dessert would do the eggs justice, and I've got a bag of walnuts and frozen mixed berries that I was itching to use, so a torte was a splendid idea.  Splendid but elaborate, with the curd, dacquoise and frosting that I needed to make. 

I didn't realize how hard it was to find a recipe for whipped cream frosting, but I think I found a keeper.  I got the recipe for stabilized whipped cream frosting from here.  It still softened like crazy outside of the fridge, but it did hold its shape for about 30 minutes.  I'll tweak the recipe a bit to suit our crazy humid weather.

Now that the torte has been tasted (yum!) and stashed in the fridge, I now have to work.  Ugh.