MARIE'S MUSES

Okay I confess, I ate the whole thing, although not in one sitting.  Two weeks ago we went up to Chester for the weekend and on the way home we stopped at Aldi.  They have the most fantastic tear and share brioche.  Layers of buttery bread wrapped around a delicious creme pattiserie filling that is to die for.  I think there's about 12 of these delectable little babies in the tray and I bought one amongst alot of other stuff.  I had almost forgotten about it when I rediscovered it in my bread bin last week .    The expiry date was not until the end of April so I thought, why not, and dug in.....here it is a week later and I finished it off yesterday....Todd never got a bite.  I hoarded it like the food whore that I am and kept it all to myself and enjoyed every tender morsel.  Here I am this morning...wishing I had bought two...I've searched online for a recipe, to no avail.  We don't have Aldi where I live and 289 miles is a long ways to go to get one.  I wonder if it would work if I just found a really good Brioche dough recipe and made that, then the creme patisserie and made them up myself?  It's probably not a good idea though.  A steady diet of them is probably not very healthy and definitely not slimming.  Maybe I should just leave it as a once in a long time treat, that I have to drive 289 miles for...maybe I should just crack open my Easter Egg instead....

While I'm in a confessing mood I might as well confess to a food crime that goes back 37 years....when I was 13 my mother went away for the weekend and left me in charge of feeding the whole family.  She had left this beautiful turkey pot pie for dinner one night.  My mother made the best pot pies...I served it up, dividing it like gold amongst the 4 of us...and got accused of taking the biggest piece for myself...for years I have tried to live that down....denying over and over again that I took the largest bit for myself, but I am here to confess today, to all and sundry....OK !!! I DID TAKE THE BIGGEST PIECE!  and it was mighty delicious too!  and...I'd do it again, given the chance!  (My mom's pot pies are legendary)  Damn it....now I'm thinking about pot pie.....

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