Trifle

We made trifle. It is called Caitlin’s Special Sunrise Trifle. Like the Chinese, the kids need to give things awesome names. Our kung fu teacher tells us that the reason the ultra-deadly move in Kung Fu is called the 8 fists of fury, is because it sounds hectic. And so the next guy names his move the 9 fists of fury. Similarly the kids need to name their creations <Name>’s  <Special/Super/Surprise/Ultra-awesome><Object>. This is also why cooking appeals to them. With food you can use outlandish adjectives like “refried” – surely one up on just plain fried – and inexplicably unpronouncable words like "coulis". Over Christmas my mother captured Will’s attention with Jamie Oliver’s Refried Chistmas Pudding Surprise (unfortunately it has coulis in it). And so Caitlin’s Special Sunrise Trifle:

Ingredients:

• 2 colours of jelly – obviously warm colours, and not greengage (not because it’s green – because you have absolutely no proof that “greengage” is a real thing)
• 1 box Custard
• 1 pack Eet-Sum-More

Method:

• First, don’t eat most of the Eet-Sum-Mores, not matter what they are called, or how you feel about Eet-Sum-Mores. Eat toast or popcorn or Oreos instead.You'll need the whole pack of Eet-Sum-Mores.
• Make the jelly.
• Do other stuff for 3 hours to let the jelly set.
• Break up the Eet-Sum-Mores – they will crumble into the right-sized bits quite easily.
• Get some short tumblers – biggish whiskey glasses.
• Then layer: [ Jelly  /  Custard  /  Eet-Sum-More crumbs (a solid layer – a light sprinkle is not what you are looking for here. You need to get serious about the barrier of Eet-Sum-More crumbs that you are trying to establish here. If it helps, you can imagine that you are a Texan border-patrol agent and this layer of Eet-Sum-Mores is your only weapon against illegal immigrants – as represented by the jelly and custard already laid down – completely taking over your country, starting with Texas ) ]  and repeat until you get to the top.