Dom Rodrigo

Achei que seria giro mascarar o Rodrigo de Dom Rodrigo. Não só pela piada do nome, como por se tratar de um dos meus doces preferidos — e também por ser uma máscara fácil, admito. Uma camisola amarela para a parte do doce de ovos e amêndoas, papel celofane prateado para o embrulho.

Cortei uns buracos para as pernas no papel celofane mas, no momento em que tentei embrulhar o Rodrigo (e friso a palavra tentei... claro que ele só fugia), o papel rasgou-se todo.

Por isso, a máscara de Carnaval do Rodrigo foi "Dom Rodrigo já comido".

Us Catholics are known to dress up for Carnival, not Halloween. Mardi Gras this year coincided with Rodrigo's first birthday, which meant that I really had to come up with something for the little one to wear.

One of my favourite Portuguese pastries is called Dom Rodrigo. It's a wonderful and extremely sweet blend of egg yolks, almonds, sugar and cinnamon, all wrapped up in foil (check out some pictures here). Such an easy costume to create: a yellow top would represent the pastry, two squares of silver cellophane would be the wrapping.

However, as is often the case with children, my plans went wrong. I cut up some holes on the cellophane sheets but as soon as I tried putting them on (believe me, I did try... but he kept running away!), the cellophane tore.

So I guess Rodrigo's costume was a "half-eaten Dom Rodrigo".

(photos: Tiago Cabral)