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todayiamadaisy) wrote2017-12-10 02:04 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2017-12-10 02:04 pm
We Danced All Night
I meant to take a photo of my raspberry pavlova wreath, but didn't get time on Friday. This is all that was left on Saturday:
It was good. And it made quite an impression, especially considering it's a regular pavlova with spoonfuls blobbed on the tray in a ring shape.
I was supposed to crush some freeze-dried raspberries so as to dust it with hot pink powder, but Pronto Fine Food Merchants (the City by the Sea's number one delicatessen) didn't have freeze-dried raspberries. They had freeze-dried everything else, though, even bananas. I ask you, f-list. Who wants freeze-dried bananas rather than raspberries? No-one at all, that's who. Anyway, after some deliberation, I bought freeze-dried peaches and made a pale pink powder, and you know what? Whole or crushed, they are delicious. I am going to buy some more and break them into my next batch of trail mix.
I also made some spiced walnuts, which required coconut oil, and now I've got most of a jar of the stuff left. What to do with it? I found a coconut oil cookbook in the library when I was returning my mother's books yesterday. It says you can substitute coconut oil anywhere you would normally use oil or butter, then proceeds to give recipes for coffee (one espresso shot, coconut oil and butter) and porridge (oats and coconut oil), two things that no-one adds oil or butter to. Or maybe everyone does and I've been making them wrong all these years.
Weekly knitting update: Slow progress. I'm still on the second clue. I've knitted a stocking stitch panel down the front and have parked the live stitches on a strand of pink wool, and have picked up stitches to do the same down the back.
It was good. And it made quite an impression, especially considering it's a regular pavlova with spoonfuls blobbed on the tray in a ring shape.
I was supposed to crush some freeze-dried raspberries so as to dust it with hot pink powder, but Pronto Fine Food Merchants (the City by the Sea's number one delicatessen) didn't have freeze-dried raspberries. They had freeze-dried everything else, though, even bananas. I ask you, f-list. Who wants freeze-dried bananas rather than raspberries? No-one at all, that's who. Anyway, after some deliberation, I bought freeze-dried peaches and made a pale pink powder, and you know what? Whole or crushed, they are delicious. I am going to buy some more and break them into my next batch of trail mix.
I also made some spiced walnuts, which required coconut oil, and now I've got most of a jar of the stuff left. What to do with it? I found a coconut oil cookbook in the library when I was returning my mother's books yesterday. It says you can substitute coconut oil anywhere you would normally use oil or butter, then proceeds to give recipes for coffee (one espresso shot, coconut oil and butter) and porridge (oats and coconut oil), two things that no-one adds oil or butter to. Or maybe everyone does and I've been making them wrong all these years.
Weekly knitting update: Slow progress. I'm still on the second clue. I've knitted a stocking stitch panel down the front and have parked the live stitches on a strand of pink wool, and have picked up stitches to do the same down the back.