All Dairy, All the Time

Since the "making my own butter" thing went over so well, I thought I would confess my most recent experiment in the Dairy Arts.

I have been making homemade ice cream.

Now, since you can buy ice cream at the store, just like you can buy butter at the store, I am expecting the same hailstorm of derision that accompanied my last confession.

Before you can put fingers to keyboard, let me just tell you that it was good, good, GOOD!

I started with a lemon ice cream, made to accompany the Elvis cake for the Lizard's birthday. I actually liked the ice cream way more than the cake. It was very tart, yet creamy. Lizard said it tasted like the middle of a lemon meringue pie. I don't know if that is a good thing, since you can buy that crap in a can for $1.50 at the grocery store, but I thought it was yummy.

I also made some banana-coconut ice cream this weekend, as a thank you for taking me to pick up my car, after the brake light fiasco (brake lights wouldn't go off, drained the battery, just what I need in the morning). I haven't heard from him, but the unfrozen portion was pretty good, but more banana-y than coconut-y, if that makes sense.

Finally, I made some cassis sorbet yesterday. It was delicious. I can't tell you what it reminded me of, or Lizard will start yapping about pictures from the place that starts with an eff and ends with "rance". It was quite light and refreshing, after the artery clogging, but creamy, earlier versions.

3 flavors down, at least 28 to go!

Where has the time gone?

I can't believe it has been a month since my last post.

If you had tracked me down in a dark alley, shoved a gun up my nose, and demanded the length of time since my last post, I would have sworn it was two weeks, tops.

Guess it is a good thing I don't hang out with gun enthusiasts. Or in dark alleys, for that matter.

Updates:

My grandfather is still hanging on. No new news. He is still under hospice care, still not eating much.

I did manage to put together an Elvis cake for my friend Lizard. It didn't turn out exactly as hoped, but that can be a whole other post.

I still haven't heard anything from Oklahoma, but we are expecting something from them early next week. Let's wait until the tornado season really gets into full swing!

We were in Boston last weekend, also for the aforementioned Lizard birthday. It rained the whole time we were there, there was a postponed baseball game and some bad scallops. Other than that, it was super!

Sweet Georgia Brown Dog and I don't have a lot of plans for this weekend. I ran out for brunch and a movie today, while she held down the sofa, under the ceiling fan. We will probably run out tomorrow for errands and a furniture auction. She comes along in her little sack. I look like a lunatic with a dog in a bag, but she seems to like it.

I think I have posted some pictures on my mobile blog, the address is: http://edacious-j-mobile.blogspot.com/

More later, and again, my humble apologies for stringing my reader along.

eJ