quick update

  • Posted on June 21, 2009 at 11:45 am

It’s been about a week since I posted anything of substance, for a couple of reasons. First, I was going through an identity crisis of sorts with this blog. The name I had been using for it just wasn’t working and I was having issues settling on this name. But here it is and here I am (for whatever that’s worth….)!

The other reason it’s been a while is that I’ve been on another bender. This week I finally broke out the ice cream maker we got as a wedding present more than four years ago. And we are SO glad that I did! So far I’ve made white chocolate ice cream and roasted banana ice cream. The white chocolate was made with heavy cream and whole cow’s milk but the roasted banana is completely soy, and I think I like the mouthfeel of that one even better. I also made a banana bread, a riff on my standby recipe since I didn’t have dried apricots and then I made a morello cherry reduction with the cherries I had left over from last weekend’s cherry cake. That came out amazingly well and incredibly thick and sweet. I can’t wait to try it on the white chocolate ice cream.

Last night’s dinner was a new recipe for quinoa with chicken, asparagus, and spring peas. Definitely a recipe with potential, so we’ll be coming back to that at some point this summer. It was good, not great, but definitely worth tweaking.

And after everything else last night after dinner I decided I needed brownies, so I made up a batch of those.

Today we had banana bread with banana ice cream for a snack. I’ve been thinking of ways to improve that ice cream, too. More caramelization, maybe on the stove top instead, and maybe some dark rum which will help keep it softer. This should be a fun summer for ice cream experimentation!

Dinner tonight? I want sushi, but will probably make chicken salad or chicken pot pie, depending on what the Husband prefers. I cooked some chicken breasts last night and figure we should have those for dinner tonight. Tomorrow will be the pork tenderloin, which I really need to put up to marinade tonight.

The fibro-fog’s been fogging my brain lately, so if I don’t write it down I’m fogetting it. Thank Goddess for the iphone; keeping my lists on there keeps me from forgetting even more things! I kow there are a few things on the kitchen list to buy but I have no recollection. At least for once I know I don’t need eggs- at one point I had 3 dozen and some extras in the house!

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