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Pleasant Surprise

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

This evening was the annual Burns Sup­per hosted by H.A.G.G.I.S. We try to attend every year as it’s a fun evening of food, friends and danc­ing. And like every year, I went else­where for my meal, but came back for dessert and danc­ing. I have tried hag­gis once and that was an expe­ri­ence that needs no rep­e­ti­tion ¹. I should men­tion that the desserts are not part of the catered meal, rather they are all brought by atten­dees of the sup­per as a con­test to see who can make the best dessert, most tra­di­tional and who has the best presentation.

As my wife and I enjoy desserts and there were a cou­ple of tri­fle recipes we wanted to try out; we decided to both enter this year. Her tri­fle was based on a black for­est cake while mine was a mix­ture of black­ber­ries, angel food cake and cheese­cake pud­ding. By the I got back to the sup­per from hav­ing real food. the dessert table had been dec­i­mated. There was a tiny bit of my wife’s dessert left and only a spoon­ful of the gooey bits of mine. I ate that lit­tle bit of dessert and then had to excuse myself momen­tar­ily ². I was just head­ing back to the hall; when a friend came and got me, telling me that my dessert had won an award.

I have to say, there’s noth­ing quite like walk­ing into a room full of peo­ple all clap­ping for you. It’s a lovely ego boost and that was my pleas­ant surprise.

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