Man, I hate to shock you, but I gotta tell ya the truth. Until a few weeks ago, I had never whipped cream. Seriously. I thought the stuff came out of aerosol cans. Only aerosol cans. I do recall my mother whipping cream a few times, but she performed other culinary desert-type miracles, so that doesn't count. Miracles cannot be performed by us mere mortals after all.
Now I've whipped cream twice and already I'm an expert. I like mine stiff. None of these "soft peaks" for me. And I prefer mine with almond extract. Frankly, I prefer nearly everything with almond extract.
And why, you might ask, was I whipping cream today. Well, we'll have a house guest tonight and tomorrow, so I thought that was a good excuse to take the afternoon off from life and just cook. I've made cream biscuits again. With the whipped cream and fresh raspberries, they will make up raspberry short cake. Why does it have to be strawberries all the time???
I've prepared carrot and parsnip sticks for oven roasted vegetables. Just a simple approach. And I've made a lamb tajine, Moroccan-style lamb stew basically. That will go over a few noodles. What fun!
That's pretty much what I've done today -- cook. Oh yes, I cleaned the house up a bit, too. I think I'm over house cleaning. The Los Osos house sale should close in 9 days. Then I call and hire the cleaning lady for this house. Cleaning the new house has simply lost its charm.
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1 comment:
Oh, Sally! I am impressed! Not about the whipped cream. That you've never whipped cream is mind-boggling. What I'm impressed with is that cleaning house - any house, even your new & wonderful house - has held some charm. Any charm. The idea of cleaning house holding any charm is, well, impressive. But, then, we all know how I clean house! Or don't.
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