Volunteering eye roll

[nwhiker]

A friend of mine had some issues about volunteering and desserts this week, and I too have one, though mine if very minor.

Tomorrow is the staff luncheon at the kids' school. I volunteered to make an orange chocolate tart which is in the oven right now.

All this is good.

I figured I'd put the tart on a plate, send in a bowl with whipped cream and a spoon and be done with it.

Uh, no. You need to send in "anything needed to serve the dessert".

I don't have a tart serving thing. Normally I use one of these. I can send mine in, no biggie.

But a sharp knife is needed as well, and give me a freaking break. I'm sorry, folks, but nice school or not, I'm not sending in one of my very expensive knives. And VERY sharp. Bzzzt.

I used to have a cheapie chef's knife I picked up at the clearance rack at Target for times like this but it has long since been lost (as a school picnic, iirc!).

Sorry volunteer people, but having a standard set of utensils for events like this makes sense. Maybe I'll donate some.

I suppose I'll just cut it in the morning before I send it in, which is a shame because a) it's pretty, and b) they say to cut everything in 8 slices. 8 slices of that tart is waaaay too few, it's very rich. I might just cut it in 12 and be done with it.

In the meanwhile my house smells like delicious baking chocolate and that makes me very happy!

[eta] It's done, and looks good... except that I'm betting the crust is very crumbly. That is my biggest gripe about that recipe. I added extra butter, but maybe not enough. Two little pieces broke off when I was removing the rim of the tart pan. Of course that's all I can see. I'm actually debating making a second one, but with a crust from another recipe. That's pretty dumb. And GAH IT'S WINDY!