The Duality of Lunch
Sep. 28th, 2012 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessThe bad news is, I didn't actually eat it until four in the afternoon. Which I shouldn't do. But I am kind of an idiot - I went to water my mom's plants today, and I got to their place at noon, and then I decided to go grocery shopping on the way back, and once I got home and got the groceries put away I had to make mayonnaise....
The good news is it was delicious. Crab salad in avocado, nom nom nom. And I am pretty sure I have found my One True Mayo Making Technique - mechanical eggbeaters for the whisking and the oil in a squeeze bottle for easy adding (I've had no luck with the immersion blender way). I can't remember where the Emulsify song came from, but it is stuck in my head now. Have I posted about how much I love my mechanical eggbeaters? It's a lot. I don't know why it took me so long to realize that they are exactly what I need for so many things - soufflés, mayonnaise, whipped cream
Also, I finally squeezed that lemon from my mystery citrus tree and it is definitely a lemon, and i got 1/4 cup of juice out of it, which seems like a lot for a single lemon. It also had a pretty thick rind, so I think it probably could have stood to stay on the tree for a while later. All signs point to Ponderosa Lemon.
Oh, the other thing I did today was shift some of my frozen stewing hens over to my parents freezer annex, thus making room for my groceries and future leftovers. Yay!
The good news is it was delicious. Crab salad in avocado, nom nom nom. And I am pretty sure I have found my One True Mayo Making Technique - mechanical eggbeaters for the whisking and the oil in a squeeze bottle for easy adding (I've had no luck with the immersion blender way). I can't remember where the Emulsify song came from, but it is stuck in my head now. Have I posted about how much I love my mechanical eggbeaters? It's a lot. I don't know why it took me so long to realize that they are exactly what I need for so many things - soufflés, mayonnaise, whipped cream
Also, I finally squeezed that lemon from my mystery citrus tree and it is definitely a lemon, and i got 1/4 cup of juice out of it, which seems like a lot for a single lemon. It also had a pretty thick rind, so I think it probably could have stood to stay on the tree for a while later. All signs point to Ponderosa Lemon.
Oh, the other thing I did today was shift some of my frozen stewing hens over to my parents freezer annex, thus making room for my groceries and future leftovers. Yay!
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Date: 2012-09-29 12:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-29 01:57 pm (UTC)I kind of like that it's not electric - so I can whip cream if the power goes out, I suppose, but mostly because it's quiet. Same functionality as a hand mixer, though, I think, though I have never had one of those, it's been whisk or stand mixer up til now. It's a hole in my kitchen gadgetry, but I think the eggbeater fills the niche...
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Date: 2012-09-29 02:18 pm (UTC)I realize I have an electic mixer because that's what my parents have -- we never had a stand mixer growing up, so somehow I think it's something for Other People. Other people with bigger kitchens than I have now, certainly.
And it is very important to be able to whip cream in the event of a blackout!
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Date: 2012-09-29 02:39 pm (UTC)