Adventure! Of sorts...

I was bored at work and my lunch had been insufficient (most of the peanut butter had squeezed out from between the bread), so I took a walk down to the local park which is always lined with food trucks around lunch time. There was a popsicle truck! And it had a very short line. (The crab truck's line was insanely long.)

I bought myself a strawberry ginger lemonade popsicle. It was surprisingly tasty. And definitely refreshing.

As I started to walk back to the office, a group of interns from ABC stopped me and asked if they could interview me about the DC heat. They reassured me that it was highly unlikely that anything they filmed would be used on tv. So I agreed on the condition that it was a short interview because my popsicle was melting. I told them I liked the hot weather and that it was perfect for ice cream. My rapidly melting popsicle made a good prop.

Once they were satisfied, I returned to the office. It was good to get away and refresh my brain. It also killed about half an hour. Yay!
Entertaining myself and my dog this evening by throwing popcorn at her head. She is having a great time. At one point, I got the popcorn to land perfectly on her back. I thought she'd go insane trying to find it before it fell off.

My fingers are kinda swollen because I took her outside earlier to play and I got bit by a few ants. I can't feel the tips of my left pinky or ring finger. I'm glad I don't live further south where they have fire ants. If a regular little ant can do this, I bet a fire ant would kill me.

And before that, I made ice cream. Chocolate Caramel Baileys. Not sure I like it all that much. Should have expected that since I'm not a fan of irish creme or chocolate ice cream. The caramel is a nice touch though. Perhaps in the future I'll try a chocolate caramel flavor without the baileys.
Vanilla Chai Ice Cream
The vanilla chai ice cream I created through experimentation. I really like how it came out. If anyone else wants to make it, I can type up the recipe.

Potato Soup
Used this recipe (warning, autoplay video in the sidebar) substituting the chicken broth for veggie broth and using fresh garlic instead of the jar stuff. It tasted good, but definitely should not be in the crock pot section since it says to be cooked in a regular pot. That was an annoying surprise wednesday morning as I was attempting to prepare a crock pot dinner.
Made this recipe up on my own and don't want to forget the ingredients before I have a chance to write the recipe down in my notebook.

1 cup whole milk
2 cups heavy cream
3 chai tea bags
3/4 cup sugar
pinch of salt
5 egg yolks
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

It was a delicious success. I brought it in to work and was told it tasted like christmas.
I did not sleep well last night, so I took a mental health day today. It has been a good day so far. I did a bit of cleaning, mended some clothes, and cuddled my dog. It would be better if ben was here to enjoy it with me, but other than that, I have no regrets for skipping work today.

Yesterday, I made ice cream. I enjoy making ice cream. It is easy to do and ends up delicious. (Most of the time.) I would like to start up an ice cream club around here but I don't really know how. I may start bringing ice cream into work to make them my guinea pigs for new flavors.

Making Ice Cream )
Last night ben bought me a red velvet ice cream cake for my birthday! So fancy! He is the very best ever! And he made a long unpleasant day end on a nice note.
Back from my trip! I am skipping work today because I woke up exhausted and with sore muscles. Plus it was pouring out. So it wasn't hard at all for me to curl back up in the blankets and sleep for a few more hours.

Anyway, the trip! That was almost doomed due to crazy car issues!

I got at a call at 10am that the car was ready and we were on the road by 11:30. We actually made it to Gettysburg! I was so excited! We got there just in time for a late lunch. I thought it was really neat that they sold civil war era foods in their food court. Ben got peanut soup with hard tack.
Peanut Soup and Hard Tack at Gettysburg
While he was eating it, he looked up and said, "I forgot my suit."

Read more... )
Chocolate Ice Cream with Peanut Butter Cups

The other night I made ice cream. Chocolate with peanut butter cups. I based it off of Alton Brown's recipe with a few small changes. The peanut butter cups being the first obvious one. But also I added a pinch of salt to enhance the chocolate flavor and 2 teaspoons of vodka to prevent the ice cream from freezing rock solid.

Then I hand-dipped ice cream cones into chocolate and sprinkles to make them fancy. I think they would have been better had I not used dark chocolate, but ben seemed to have liked them.

Also, I made chocolate chip cookie dough, which will be used to make cookies all this week. I feel very clever about the dough. I shaped it into a long roll so that I can slice off pieces as I want. I will use it to make many small cookie batches. It will be delicious.

And I have all the ingredients set aside to make a cake this weekend. I need to make the cake because I have 8 egg whites leftover from the ice cream that I refuse to let go to waste. So I have found both a cake and frosting recipe that will use up exactly 8 egg whites in total. Not sure what I'll do with all that cake though...

Regardless, behold my mighty culinary powers!
Everything I eat is pink.

Strawberry Ice Cream

Strawberry Cheesecake

Story about the cheesecake:

As I was squeezing the cream through a ziplock bag turned into a pastry bag, the bag burst sending cream all over the kitchen. I screamed AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! OH MY GODDDDDDDDD!!! And then started to laugh uncontrollably. It was the only way I could deal with the situation.
Today's cooking adventure was homemade ice cream.

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

It's a little soft in this picture because I couldn't wait any longer to eat it. Mmmmmm, it was good.
I've had this bizarre but mild fascination with fudgie the whale for the longest time. For the wedding, I was going to buy ben a whale cake that said he was "one whale of a husband!"

Then at the worst shower ever (I left crying), my mom bought a fudgie the whale cake for me. I don't even know what she wrote on it. I was already crying and then I saw the cake that I wanted to get especially for ben and I stormed off in tears. (Yes, it was a dumb thing to throw me over the edge, but really you had to have been at that party. It was horrible.)

I've decided I need to plan Operation: Take Back Fudgie. Cause I still have a mild bizarre fascination. But every time I think of that cake, I get a tight sad feeling in my chest as I remember that horrible party. I need to plan something that involves this cake that will be so happy, it will erase the bad feelings that I previously have connected with the cake.

I did that with my birthday, so I know it can work. (I no longer cry on my birthday!) It will just require persistence. Maybe I can have the cake for a birthday party and totally mess up my insane brain.
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After work yesterday, Ben and I took a walk down to the atm in town center so I could deposit my paycheck. (And finally pay some bills.) We brought noname with us too. She was very excited about the whole thing.

After I had money again, ben and I split an ice cream cone. To obtain said cone, we had to take noname through the middle of town center. She had never been in a place like that before, so I was really worried. But she was fine and thought the whole thing was rather exciting, especially the part where I was holding an ice cream cone in front of her.

When we got home, ben went back to watching Lost. The show is working well for us because ben can watch it when I'm not around. (Unlike the billion other shows we are watching together.) It's interesting enough to sit and watch it when it's on, but not so interesting that I feel upset if I miss anything. And ben fills me in on the major plot points so I'm not too confused.

This morning I was a little mad at the show though because ben woke up to watch it rather than snuggling with me. I was mad and grumbly all morning, but ben hugged me and kissed me so I guess I have to forgive him. I get jealous too easily.

Now work where I found out I have to go to some lecture at the crack of dawn on Thursday. Poooo. That means I have to get up super early and drop ben off at work early. No fair.
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I have not made a real update in an insanely long time. I've been stupidly busy this week.

I guess at this point, the best thing to do is start at the beginning and try to do my best.

Let's see. Last weekend I went to Great Falls park with [livejournal.com profile] eunicemcgee. It was a lot of fun! I was glad to get out of the house and do stuff and all was so cool and nifty. I took a bunch of pictures too! :)
Many pictures of the park )

Also this weekend, I had a fabulously decadent morning with ice cream for breakfast. In bed. I think everyone should be brought ice cream in bed for breakfast once in a while.

During the week, Ben finally got me to play World of Warcraft. I made dwarf. Her name looks somewhat like Susan, but not really and I can't remember it off the top of my head. I only just left the first area, so I'm not very strong and my level is pretty low. It's a fun enough game, and would probably play it more if I had more free time.

At work this week, I was given post cards to write. I was given the goal "Make people call and remodel" which is pretty straightforward. But after I wrote the cards, I was told the goal had changed. Now it was "Remodel really big things." That requires a completely different strategy! So I basically had to rewrite everything I wrote. I wasn't bitter about it or anything though. I was trying to look at it like a puzzle to solve. A good mind frame, I think. Though, I'm going to be really glad when these things are done.

Oh yeah, and the sad puppy story. Puppy )

I've since been cracking down hard on my dog's training. I want her to be the most well-behaved dog ever. That way nothing bad can happen to her.

Skipping minor details of the week, we come to this weekend. Ben didn't have game this weekend, so being the wonderful boyfriend that he is, he went with me to anime club. I got to watch more kaleido star. We were the only one's there watching it. ^^; I was really glad ben was there, or I probably would have left. I feel very awkward being the only one doing something.

It turns out though, that I was hanging on ben too much and embarrassing him. I felt so awful about that. I ended up getting all upset about that and a billion other things I hate about myself and Virginia. I ended up crying and it took ben forever to console me. By then, I was so exhausted and dehydrated that I passed out until the evening when I had to take ben to work. Even after I did that, I was exhausted, so I went back to bed and collapsed for the night.

And now I'm up-to-date. That pleases me. I can have breakfast now.

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