and not in a way that is going to profit me oodles of money from television sales. Sometimes, okay a lot of the time, I just don’t know when to stop. Today, the trifle was the latest victim. All along I had planned on making a chocolate brownie trifle. Super delicious, basically layers of brownie, whipped cream and cherry/raspberry pie filling. That’s what I was aiming for. Chris went out last night and I asked if he could stop at the store on the way home to pick up some whipping cream and pie filling for the trifle. “Sure, sure I’ll call you.” He never called. Why hasn’t he called? He doesn’t know what I need. Then he comes walking in the door around 12:30 a.m. “Why didn’t you answer the phone, I called you like 14 times?” he says. “Huh? The phone never rang.” Further investigation showed that the phone did in fact ring. It was behind closed doors where the babe’s were sleeping. And now, I have a bag of fruit. Fruit? Blueberries, raspberries…completely wrong for the choco-trifle. He tried, I can’t blame him for that. “Last thing I heard you say was trifle” he says. Famous last words. So now what do I do? I already made up a pan of brownies (in the best brownie pan evah.) There wasn’t time to make a pound cake or angel food cake for a fruit trifle. So I do the unthinkable. And it goes a little somethin’ like this:
Whip up the cream and spread 1/3 of it on the bottom of your trifle pan. Throw some brownies on top.
Next, spread 1/2 package worth of chocolate instant pudding on top. Place sliced banana’s around edge. 
Then, place strawberries around the edge, spread next 1/3 of whipped cream on and then add strawberry jam (this s where I fear things may have gone disastrously wrong.) 
Next, the rest of the pudding on that and brownies on top. 
On top of that, place strawberries along the outside, banana’s in the middle, some blueberries, raspberries and because all of that isn’t enough…chocolate shavings on top. 
You lost me, no I lost me, at blueberries and strawberry jam. How horribly wrong is that paired with CHOCOLATE? Banana’s? Sure. Raspberries? Sure. Strawberries? Sure. Everything else? Not so sure. I may as well have thrown in a ham hock while I was at it.
I’ll be entering the party through the back door. If anyone see’s me, I’ll blame Chris.
p.s Did you hear that Ina Garten has a new cookbook coming out? October 28, 2008. Huh-rah! Pre-order from Amazon. Isn’t she such a cutie pie. I just love her.
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