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strawberry frozen yogurt!
saturday, july 18, 2009
The past few weeks have been quite warm, getting into the 90s. This past week I've been thinking about ice cream, ok who am I kidding I'm always thinking about ice cream. I searched my favorite food blog sites to find a good fruit ice cream and came across one by David Lebovitz and it seemed so easy to make.
So when I got up this morning I decided to go to my new favorite super market and get fresh fruit for my ice cream. I made a few minor, unintentional alterations to David's recipe. Admittedly I have a short attention span and when cooking that's not exactly the best trait--which has been the cause for a lot of burnt food. Tim recommends that I not leave the kitchen when I'm cooking, which can lead to a very bored girl. However, even I can't burn ice cream. I did leave the strawberries in with the sugar for twice as long as David recommends and forgot to stir them in those 4 hours. So, I'm not completely sure if this caused the frozen yogurt to be too sweet, but if I make this again, I would probably try cutting down on the sugar.
In the end it's still some good frozen yogurt and the perfect before dinner treat on a hot summer day.
the 30th
monday, july 13th, 2009
Thirty years go by so quickly, sometimes I wonder if I've done anything useful with those thirty years. I don't know that I have the answer to that, but I do have a pretty cake! A co-worker's wife baked and decorated this cake for 3 of us whose birthdays are in July. Beautiful isn't it? She's self taught and has done several cakes already, some people are just truly amazing.
wanted dead or alive
monday, july 13th, 2009
Every few months or so I decide it's time to plant something. Of course that generally means I've killed the plants that were previously there. So what do I do? I take pictures of my plants while they're still alive and show them off. That way people always think I have live plants. Clever right?
If you happen to notice there are missing leaves it's because I plucked them off for my first attempt at pesto.
dirty risotto
sunday, july 12th, 2009
I love risotto and love the thought of making risotto. However, rarely does risotto taste as good as I think it will. A dear friend makes amazing mushroom risotto, but never think I've made compares to it, I think he puts more love into it than I do. This dirty risotto recipe I found from Giada DeLaurentiis did come out pretty good though.
colorado
saturday, july 4th, 2009
We went to Colorado for a friend's wedding. There were tons of lightning storms and rain, it was beautiful. It had been raining off and on all weekend but right as the guests got to the outdoor ceremony the rain stopped, then when it was over and we were all inside the barn for the reception it started to rain really hard again. Amazing. When we were leaving the reception there were 2 rainbows visible from the barn, and we saw this cloud on the drive back to the hotel.