It’s Easter Thursday and shopping is on the list of priorities. 
With the shops shut on Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, we all race to the supermarket with the fear that we will die of starvation over the Easter Break!!. Anyway, I did need to stock up
so went. In the middle of aisle four, having bought all my fruit and veg, selected my meat (you know how long that can take right?), got my 230g of champagne ham from the deli and my fresh Terakihi and Salmon, I decided I needed a marinade for my spare ribs, so raced back without the trolley to the previous aisle and quickly chose my soy, honey and garlic marinade. I took less than 3 minutes. I ducked back to my trolley and it wasn’t there! What? Someone has accidently taken my trolley by mistake. Should be easy to find as I was drinking a soy latte which I had left in the cup holder. I scanned the aisles, one after the other all the way to the freezer section and couldn’t see it. 
I covered the same territory again, this time analysing every trolley for pawpaw, mangos and anything familiar that I had put in it. Still nothing and no one had my trolley. How was it possible for a supermarket trolley, full of carefully selected produce, to go missing…ahhhhhh. I 
decided to go into the fresh fruit section at the start of the supermarket and voila…the culprit and the trolley miraculously appeared, being pushed by a staff member and being unloaded as we speak.
‘I found it,’ I said. I’ve been looking for my trolley everywhere. ‘Where’s the meat, and the nuts and the fish?’
“I’m sorry. My supervisor told me to put everything back from the trolleys in the aisle.’
I shook my head, I couldn’t believe it. I had found it, but had to go around and get my fresh produce again. The fish guy, handed me back the same four pieces of fish he had just put back, luckily the nut lady had not put back my bags of freshly weighed nuts and handed them to me intact. I was just so relieved that my trolley thief hadn’t started in on the fresh fruit and veges. It takes quite an effort to shop, select all your produce and to have to go through it all again so soon would have been too much!. The only thing I forgot to recollect was the pork spare ribs which was what I had bought the marinade for in the first place!
So now, it’s getting close to the end of the month and I’m up to my 13th bake. I had planned to make these Choux caramel puffs 
today, and now at 2.50pm I am weighing up if I have time as I have to take my daughter for her diabetes eye test at 4.20pm. I decide to go for it. The choux pastry doesn’t take long and before you know it I am piping the long rolls onto the tray. 
Luckily I remembered to buy large plastic bags so I can use these for piping, worked a treat. I popped them in the oven by 3.40pm, but unfortunately I had to bake in a preheated oven for 15 minutes, then quickly open and close the door to let out the steam then bake for a further 20 mins. Then I had to remove them from the oven, make a hole in the end of each finger to release the team and return to the oven for a further 10-12 minutes. This was a whole extra 21 minutes I didn’t have if we were going to make our appointment on time. I compromised a bit on the cooking time, cutting out 5 minutes here and there. 
At 4pm my daughter came out of her room with very low blood sugar (2.0mmol) so I filled her with juice and biscuits, then we raced out of the house at 4.10pm and got to our appointment late. She’s been going low a lot lately at midday which means she needs to reduce her insulin intake.
Unfortunately, being Easter Thursday, and the last appointment in the afternoon, they put us down as a no-show and took off for the long weekend! Oh well probably did them a favour, and we will get rescheduled for another time.
The upshot of it was that I got home,
made the caramel, whipped the cream, and got the best reception 
ever from the family
after our homemade crumbed fish and wedges with salad dinner. Those Choux caramel puffs went down a treat! Beautiful.
