More mezzotint and PRALINES!

Eight hours of mezzotint today.  I got my plate done but boy, it was a long haul.  Didn't bring a big enough lunch with me--pretty sure my blood sugar level was at the floor.  Walking home I felt like I was dead on my feet.

Thankfully I ran into Indra at Rewe (I had to go there after class to get cereal, milk, and a couple other things) and she helped me carry my groceries, which was definitely helpful.  I got home and had to do an "eat something before I can make something to eat," I was so tired.  Had a piece of cheese for an energy booster and then made salad, mixed vegetables, and baked potatoes for dinner.

Pretty sure that my blood sugar is now plenty high, because after dinner we made pralines!  Indra had mail-ordered some special shampoo and they sent it to her along with some heart-shaped white chocolate shells in a box.  (Go figure . . . Indra and I have absolutely NO clue why they would send those with shampoo.  So incredibly random!)  Anyway, she looked up a praline recipe and bought ingredients, and we made a chocolate hazelnut filling to go inside the white chocolate shells.  Marni arrived just as we were starting, and she helped us fill them, but then she had to go back to her room and finish packing for Israel.  She's taking a trip there with Sam, one of the other Australian girls, and they'll be there a little over a week.  (I wished I could go too, but I'm already going to Paris next week so it didn't work out.)  Marni was so sweet!  She made each of us a jar of this amazing stuff she invented called "Cookie Love."  It's kind of like almond butter but with vanilla extract and chocolate chips in it.  She even put it in a cute jar and tied a ribbon around it with a label, like a little gift package. Indra and I told her "thank you" probably three times each.

The pralines weren't easy to fill and a lot of them came out super messy, but here's a photo of the nicest ones.  We had so much extra filling that Indra and I made the rest of it into balls and rolled them in cocoa.  Kind of tasted like nutella.  Yum!  (Just can't eat too many of them at once--they are SUPER sweet!)

Tomorrow after the City Light church service, we're all going to have a picnic in the Stadtpark. I think I'll take some of the pralines to share, since we have so many of them (and we'll have no Marni around to help us eat them--she has the highest chocolate tolerance of anybody I know.)  Indra said she might come along with me to church and to the picnic.  Hoping for good weather tomorrow!