“Hit the road Jack and don’t come back no more no more no more no more, hit the road Jack, never come a back no more”
If you can’t buy me cherry tequila - you can’t talk to me. (there is no cherry tequila on the market, so you can’t talk to me)
And so ALL Jacks need to hit the road if they are not what I am looking for…harsh?.... no…. picky?… no… stubborn?.. no… just ….. HE will be able to find the cherry tequila … and even if it’s not cherry then, I will pretend that it is!
The fact of the matter is he must want to go and look for the cherry tequila, that’s how much he must want to have a conversation with me…and conversation that will end up being a lifetime long.....
We are not playing hard to get, we just want you to pursue us, because then we know we are yours and yours only… I think I would have adored living in the Elizabethan Times, horse rides and pick nicks and candle light (let’s forget about the slavery for a moment) Jane Austen got it very right! It might have been arranged, it might have been forced, it might have been conservative, but it was done in the right way.
Shakespearian times – plague, scandal, controversy and a world traveller of love, hate and comedy. But he wrote: “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – I will know that you will find the Cherry Tequila and I will run through “water and fire after such a kind heart”.
In the end of the day you can say and do what you want, but there are only 4 scenarios:
1. He likes you, you like him – we all win!
2. He likes you, you don’t like him – he loses and doesn’t show it
3. He doesn’t like you and you like him – you loose and cry for a week and talk to all your friends about it
4. He doesn’t like you and you don’t like him – boys and girls can’t just be friends
This is the same in all the countries around the world (no Italian men are NOT different) find number 1, and when you do, pour him a cherry tequila and bake him a Black Forest Cake:
Black Forest Cake:
Ingredients
• 2 1/8 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 (20 ounce) cans pitted sour cherries
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup corn-starch
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch, round, cake pans; cover bottoms with waxed paper.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, 2 cups sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add eggs, milk, oil, and 1 tablespoon vanilla; beat until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pans.
3. Bake for 35 minutes, or until wooden toothpick inserted in centres comes out clean. Cool layers in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Loosen edges, and remove to racks to cool completely.
4. Drain cherries, reserving 1/2 cup juice. Combine reserved juice, cherries, 1 cup sugar and corn-starch in a 2 quart saucepan. Cook over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cool before using.
5. Combine whipping cream and confectioner's sugar in a chilled medium bowl. Beat with an electric mixer at high speed until stiff peaks form.
6. With long serrated knife, split each cake layer horizontally in half. Tear one split layer into crumbs; set aside. Reserve 1 1/2 cups Frosting for decorating cake; set aside. Gently brush loose crumbs off top and side of each cake layer with pasty brush or hands. To assemble, place one cake layer on cake plate. Spread with 1 cup frosting; top with 3/4 cup cherry topping. Top with second cake layer; repeat layers of frosting and cherry topping. Top with third cake layer. Frost side of cake. Pat reserved crumbs onto frosting on side of cake. Spoon reserved frosting into pastry bag fitted with star decorator tip. Pipe around top and bottom edges of cake. Spoon remaining cherry topping onto top of cake.
